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- Vasectomania
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: The University of Akron Press
- Series: Akron Series in Poetry
summary
Lee Ann Roripaugh called American Busboy a "wry anti-mythology" where an "anti-hero busboy in an anonymous Clam Shack! tangles with the monotonous delirium of work, the indignities and poor pay of unskilled labor [and] the capricious deus ex machina of mean-spirited middle management." We might call Vasectomania the busboy fast-forwarded 20 years, a little bit wiser and tangling now with the monotonous delirium of parenting, tangling with the indignities of flailing (and often failing) as a father and partner and dealing with his own social-cultural traditions of being raised in a blue-collar town by a single mother whose voice seems to haunt his every move.
Table of Contents
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- Part 1. A Bag of Frozen Peas . . .
- Bastille Day
- pp. 2-3
- On Road Trips
- p. 7
- Totally Doable
- pp. 12-13
- A Bag of Frozen Peas
- p. 14
- Part 2. Mountain Goats . . .
- Ten Poems on Marriage plus a Wish
- pp. 17-20
- Mountain Goats
- pp. 21-22
- Cold Caller
- p. 23
- Roughneck Twine
- p. 27
- The Brood Stock
- p. 31
- The Kalevala
- pp. 33-34
- Part 3. Dear Kids . . .
- Civil Disobedience
- p. 41
- Upon Turning 40
- p. 42
- The Day Some Plumbing Died
- pp. 43-44
- Someone Has to Make a List
- pp. 46-47
- “Just You and the Open Road”
- pp. 48-49
- Adjustable Beds
- p. 51
- Transverse
- pp. 52-53
- Substitute
- p. 54
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 56-57
- About the Author
- p. 58
Additional Information
ISBN
9781629220901
Related ISBN(s)
9781629220895
MARC Record
OCLC
995355681
Pages
64
Launched on MUSE
2017-11-04
Language
English
Open Access
No