James Shea

The Lost Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Backyard mysticism with a dash of scalding absurdity, James Shea's second collection is by turns wry, wrenching, and utterly real.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: FENCE BOOKS
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 118g
• ISBN-13: 9781934200780
• ISBN-10: 1934200786
• Artikelnr.: 39577696

Autorenporträt

James Shea is the author of "Star in the Eye," selected for the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series and named as a "Favorite Book of 2008" by the Chicago Sun-Times. His work has appeared in various publications, including "Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, The Iowa Review, " and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day feature. His translations of Japanese poetry can be found in "The Iowa Review, Circumference, " and "Gin'yu." He has taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, and as a poet-in-residence in the Chicago public schools, where he received the Poetry Center of Chicago's Gwendolyn Brooks Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was included recently in the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets series, and his second collection is forthcoming from Fence Books. He currently teaches at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
A.
Thinking of Work 4
Sun Can't Set 5
Birthmark'd Face 6
The Second Comedian 7
Plato's Balls 8
Three-Night Stand 9
Chalk Remarks 10
Ambulance Man 11
Poem 12
Tiny Cathedral 13
The Lost Novel 14
A Weed 16
Table Clothes 17
B.
Air and Water Show 19
C.
The Ever-Breaking Mirror 29
Lyrical Intervention 30
New & Selected 34
Rain's Misstep 38
Poem by Tolstoy 39
Interior, SD 40
Towns We Saw 40
Moscow 42
D.
The Escapist 44
Sculptress 45
Sammy 46
An Irish Prayer 47
Hired Mourners 48
Dark Passage 49
A Few Discrepancies between Feeling and Thought 50
Upper Peninsula 51
Natural Tablet 52
Perfecta 53
Three-Clam Lake 54
Acts of Fire 55
Supervenience 56