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- Sweet Spot: Poems
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
summary
Classical deities and down-and-out junkies, high school sweethearts and the inner life of JFK—these are the coordinates of J.T. Barbarese’s terrain. The poems in Sweet Spot set up shop where average lived experience meets American history. Masterfully evokes both the specific land- and cityscapes of his poems as well the psychological types of the varied characters that populate them, Sweet Spot confirms Barbarese’s preeminence as a chronicler of the heroic everyday, the telling detail, the subtle reminders of the human predicament hidden in habit and memory.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Sweet Spot
- p. 6
- Earth Science
- p. 9
- Open Porches
- pp. 10-11
- At Rafferty’s
- p. 12
- Distressed Beauty
- p. 14
- After Apollinaire
- p. 15
- Brown Shoes
- p. 16
- Speed-Walker
- p. 17
- At the Vietnam Memorial
- pp. 21-22
- *
- *
- Blue Rondeau
- p. 43
- The Beloved
- p. 44
- Fuck-Me Boots
- p. 47
- Day of Atonement
- p. 50
- Spring, Finally
- p. 53
- Babbitt Blamed Romanticism
- pp. 54-55
- Heracleitus
- p. 56
- Rudolph on the Roof
- pp. 57-58
- On a Burst Soil Line
- pp. 60-61
- After Dropping the Kids Off,
- pp. 62-63
- Home Is Where
- p. 65
- *
- The Nine Rings of JFK
- pp. 69-72
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 75-77
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810166073
Related ISBN(s)
9780810128156
MARC Record
OCLC
867784764
Pages
83
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2012