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- Chapel of Inadvertent Joy
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- 2013
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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“Reading Jeffrey McDaniel’s gorgeously dark and utterly compelling Chapel of Inadvertent Joy reminds me that he is probably the most important poet in America. The book in your hands was written by a master of metaphor and a poet of huge imagination and fierce ingenuity, a fine antidote to realism. Get this voice in your head.”
—Major Jackson
Table of Contents
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- Little Soldier of Love
- Track of Now
- pp. 5-18
- A Brief History of the Future
- pp. 6-19
- Attention, Please
- pp. 8-21
- Happy Marriage
- pp. 9-22
- Eliot Spitzer in Grad School
- pp. 10-23
- The Cougar Tree
- pp. 11-24
- A Brief History of Eyebrows
- pp. 12-25
- The Barbecued Man
- pp. 13-26
- Pity Party
- pp. 14-27
- The Grudge
- pp. 15-28
- Pick-up Lines of the Marquis de Sade
- pp. 16-29
- Conditionals
- pp. 17-30
- Little Soldier of Love
- pp. 18-31
- Satan Exulting Over Eve
- pp. 19-22
- Keeper of the Light
- pp. 23-26
- Reflections of a Cuckold and Other Blasphemies
- The Birds and the Bees
- pp. 29-30
- I Am Not an Idiot
- pp. 31-44
- The Furies
- pp. 32-45
- The Cuckold in Autumn
- pp. 33-46
- Life as a Donkey
- pp. 34-47
- Holiday Weekend
- pp. 35-48
- The Cuckold Explores the Subjunctive
- pp. 36-49
- Lust in Translation
- pp. 38-51
- The Cuckold and the Penal System
- pp. 39-52
- from The Cuckold’s Survivor Manual
- pp. 40-53
- The Cuckold Sees the Bigger Picture
- pp. 41-54
- Interview with a Cuckold
- pp. 43-44
- Return to El Mundo Perdido
- A Brief History of Immortality
- pp. 47-60
- Queen of the Shortcuts
- pp. 48-61
- A Brief History of Neon
- pp. 49-62
- Return to El Mundo Perdido
- pp. 50-63
- The High Heat
- pp. 52-65
- Kicking the Lust Bucket
- pp. 53-55
- Youngest Brother Turning Forty
- pp. 56-69
- Fifty-Fifty Ball
- pp. 57-70
- Half-breed
- pp. 58-71
- Middle Age
- pp. 65-78
- Chapel of Inadvertent Joy
- pp. 70-72
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 73-74
- Back Cover
- p. 90
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822979128
Related ISBN(s)
9780822962601
MARC Record
OCLC
867739634
Pages
86
Launched on MUSE
2013-12-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
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