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- 2011-04-15
- ISBN
- 9780226764351
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- 9780226764351
- Book Title
- Devotions
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 6.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 104 Pages
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In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur. Bulletins and interruptions come from brutal elsewheres and from the interior where music puts electrodes on the body to take an EKG. These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're driving, while riding a bus, while receiving a call, while passing through an X-ray machine, the personal is intersected--sometimes violently, sometimes tenderly--with the hum and buzz of the culture. The culture, whether New York or Tuscaloosa, Seattle or Philadelphia, past or present, carries the burden of race and "someone's idea of beauty." The poems fluctuate between the two poles of "lullaby and homicide" before taking a vow to remain on earth, to look right and left, to wait and to witness.
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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226764354
ISBN-13
9780226764351
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99473449
Product Key Features
Book Title
Devotions
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
104 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
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Ps3569.M512d48 2011
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Smith's devotions are authoritative and capacious. Neither querulous nor slavish, they give pleasure, which is what we ask of them., " Devotions reads like a series of protean Ars Poeticas . The poems glow with ghost rhymes, hypnotic catalogues, and lyric enchantments that constitute ''a blues about the rules for distance and difficult love.'' Bruce Smith is a poet I always read with awe and hunger. This amazing new book overwhelms me in the best possible ways."--Terrance Hayes, author of Lighthead , winner of the National Book Award, "Bruce Smith''s new poems move fast and travel far. . . . Most books of new poems are either too long or leave readers wanting more. Devotions does neither; it is ample as well as ambitious, agile and unpredictable as well as viscerally affecting. For all that its born-to-run characters yearn for escape, it''s a book to stay inside; it''s exhausting to read, and yet it''s a book to get lost in, one you won''t exhaust any time soon."--Stephen Burt, New York Times Book Review, Smith's devotions are authoritative and capacious. Neither querulous nor slavish, they give pleasure, which is what we ask of them., In poems alternately sharp, slippery, and tender, Smith finds a way to take in almost everything--'Shooter Protocol,' Charlie Parker, high school shop class--moving seamlessly between critique and embrace. Smith's been closely watched for several books now, and this may be his best collection yet., Bruce Smith's new poems move fast and travel far. . . . Most books of new poems are either too long or leave readers wanting more. Devotions does neither; it is ample as well as ambitious, agile and unpredictable as well as viscerally affecting. For all that its born-to-run characters yearn for escape, it's a book to stay inside; it's exhausting to read, and yet it's a book to get lost in, one you won't exhaust any time soon., "In poems alternately sharp, slippery, and tender, Smith finds a way to take in almost everything-''Shooter Protocol,'' Charlie Parker, high school shop class-moving seamlessly between critique and embrace. Smith''s been closely watched for several books now, and this may be his best collection yet."- Publishers Weekly, Devotions reads like a series of protean Ars Poeticas . The poems glow with ghost rhymes, hypnotic catalogues, and lyric enchantments that constitute 'a blues about the rules for distance and difficult love.' Bruce Smith is a poet I always read with awe and hunger. This amazing new book overwhelms me in the best possible ways., "Smith''s devotions are authoritative and capacious. Neither querulous nor slavish, they give pleasure, which is what we ask of them."- Library Journal, In poems alternately sharp, slippery, and tender, Smith finds a way to take in almost everything-'Shooter Protocol,' Charlie Parker, high school shop class-moving seamlessly between critique and embrace. Smith's been closely watched for several books now, and this may be his best collection yet.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Devotion: Coin-Op Devotion: Hörlust Devotion: New York, July Devotion: Thirst Reduction Devotion: Redshift Devotion: Smoke Devotion: High School Devotion: Hunan House Devotion: Soup Devotion: Fort Drum Devotion: Medea Devotion: Red Roof Inn Devotion: Guitar Devotion: The Burnt-Over District Devotion: Dub Devotion: Obbligato Devotion: Rent Devotion: Dizzy Gillespie Devotion: J's Dream Devotion: Al Green Devotion: Paris Devotion: Contraband Devotion: New York, 1970 Devotion: Josephine P Devotion: Changeling Devotion: The Garment District Devotion: Wuthering Heights Devotion: Sleep Devotion: The Bus to Utica Devotion: Providence Devotion: Syracuse Devotion: Syracuse en Rose Devotion: Dress Devotion: Closer Devotion: Flight Devotion: Ode Devotion: October Devotion: Amerika Devotion: Rimbaud Devotion: The Game Devotion: Baseball Devotion: X Devotion: Infant Joy Devotion: Infant Sorrow Devotion: The Republic Devotion: Active Shooter Protocol Devotion: Car Wreck Devotion: Nature Devotion: The Insects Devotion: Dusk Devotion: Race Traitor Devotion: Futurismo Devotion: Sun Devotion: Midrash Devotion: Crows Devotion: Roman Devotion: The Unbidden Devotion: Fly
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2010-027119
Dewey Decimal
811
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Phoenix Poets Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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