In this Book
- Blood Pages
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
In Blood Pages George Bilgere continues his exploration of the joys and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in the Midwest. OK, maybe he’s a bit beyond middle-aged at this point, and his rueful awareness of this makes these poems even more darkly hilarious, more deeply aware of the feckless and baffling times our nation has stumbled into. And the fact that Bilgere, relatively late in life, is now the father of two young boys brings a fresh sense of urgency to his work. Blood Pages is a guidebook to the fears, foibles, and beauties of our lovely old country as it makes its blundering, tentative way into the new century.
Table of Contents
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- ’56 Corvette
- p. 3
- Above Illinois
- pp. 4-6
- Living Will
- p. 7
- Happy Hour
- p. 8
- Void Unfilled
- pp. 11-12
- The Roughs
- pp. 14-16
- Blood Pages
- p. 17
- Beautiful Country
- pp. 18-19
- Farmers’ Market
- p. 20
- Pancake Dilemma
- p. 21
- Strange Opera
- pp. 22-23
- Midnight in LA
- pp. 26-28
- The Rose Trellis
- p. 30
- I Tie My Shoes
- pp. 31-32
- Really Eternal City
- p. 36
- Ghostly Heron
- p. 37
- Letter to the Dying
- pp. 38-39
- Swim Lessons
- p. 44
- Armored Car
- p. 45
- The Mysterians
- p. 47
- Father’s Day
- p. 48
- Storage Unit
- pp. 49-50
- Daddy Long Legs
- p. 51
- Strawberries
- p. 53
- Tube Testers
- p. 59
- Memorial Day
- p. 60
- The Chartr’d Thames
- p. 66
- In Praise of Soup
- pp. 67-68
- End of August
- p. 69
- Watering Flowers
- p. 70
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 71-72
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822983309
Related ISBN(s)
9780822965275
MARC Record
OCLC
1032375727
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2018-05-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018