In this Book
- Death of a Ventriloquist
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
- Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
summary
This debut collection includes love songs and prayers, palinodes and pleas, short histories and tragic tales as well as a series of ventriloquist poems that track the epiphanies and consequences of speaking in a voice other than one’s own. Other poems speak to a Beloved and the highs and lows of parenthood and personhood—all with music and verve, with formal dexterity, with sadness and humor, with an intimate voice that can both whisper in our ears and grab us by the collar and implore us to listen. “What drives the poems in this wonderfully animated debut volume and prompts the reader’s pleasure in them is the patent honesty of the poet’s voice. In the ‘ventriloquist’ series itself, Fay-LeBlanc creates a remarkable refracted self-portrait, bristling with moments of unabashed illumination.”—Eamon Grennan, author of Out of Sight
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- 1
- Rider Unhorsed
- p. 3
- On Leaving Home
- p. 4
- Worry Bone
- p. 8
- The End of Reading
- pp. 14-15
- Learning to Wait
- p. 16
- Inspiration
- pp. 17-18
- American Beech
- p. 19
- 2
- Park City Grille
- p. 27
- A Brief History of the Decline
- pp. 28-31
- One of the Dummies at Night
- pp. 33-34
- 3
- Notes on Colic
- pp. 41-43
- How to Make Fatherhood Lyrical
- pp. 44-45
- Music in My Head
- p. 46
- Death of a Ventriloquist
- pp. 47-48
- 4
- Visiting Chicago
- p. 52
- Four Planes of Experience
- pp. 53-59
- Rattling Funicular
- pp. 60-61
- Caravaggio’s Peter
- p. 62
- The Prayer of Glass
- pp. 63-65
- Disabused Sonnet
- p. 66
- The Perhaps World
- p. 67
- The Worst First Line
- pp. 70-71
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574414554
Related ISBN(s)
9781574414479
MARC Record
OCLC
806456526
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-26
Language
English
Open Access
No