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- Haywire: Poems
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Utah State University Press
- Series: Swenson Poetry Award
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Tenth annual winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award, Haywire is a well-polished collection from a highly accomplished poet. With humor, compassion, and an unflinching eye, Bilgere explores the human condition in accessible lines and a magician's way with language. In images bright and dark, tangible and immanent, Bilgere brings us time after time to the inner reaches of a contemporary life. In subjects ranging from adolescent agony to the loss of parents to the comic pain of middle age, he finds no reason to turn away his gaze, and ultimately no reason not to define himself in joy
Haywire was chosen for the Swenson Award by poet Edward Field, winner of numerous awards and a personal friend of the late May Swenson. Field describes the book this way. "This poet, you knew from his very first lines, didn’t fall for anything phony—his own language is irresistibly no-bullshit down to earth, even sassy."
Haywire was chosen for the Swenson Award by poet Edward Field, winner of numerous awards and a personal friend of the late May Swenson. Field describes the book this way. "This poet, you knew from his very first lines, didn’t fall for anything phony—his own language is irresistibly no-bullshit down to earth, even sassy."
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. iii-v
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. ix
- Dedication
- p. v
- Part I
- THIS SUMMER
- p. 7
- THE SURGEON GENERAL
- p. 10
- THAT’S A TAKE
- p. 11
- SIMILE PRACTICE
- p. 12
- HAPPY HOUR
- p. 14
- JANITORIAL
- p. 16
- SAY MY NAME
- pp. 17-18
- PETROGLYPHS
- pp. 19-20
- Part II
- MISS DECEMBER
- p. 26
- GOOD HUMOR
- p. 30
- CASABLANCA
- pp. 32-33
- WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
- p. 35
- UNWISE PURCHASES
- pp. 36-37
- VIEW OF THE CITY OF DELFT
- pp. 38-39
- ANNIVERSARY
- p. 40
- Part III
- SHE’S GOOD
- pp. 47-48
- MUSEUM PIECE
- p. 51
- GOING TO BED
- p. 54
- CITIZEN KANE
- p. 55
- GLOBAL WARMING
- pp. 56-57
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- p. 59
Additional Information
ISBN
9780874215410
Related ISBN(s)
9780874216462, 9780874216479
MARC Record
OCLC
476039869
Pages
75
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2006