| Description |
x, 97 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
In his second collection, The Dance of No Hard Feelings, Lambda Award winner Mark Bibbins pressures language into a performance of surprising, invigorating movements across syntax and line. Vulnerable, yet suspicious and sharp-witted, he responds to a nation responsible for and besieged by a bankrupted presidency, employing concise lyrics and longer sequences while in the process inventing a new form, the exploded double haiku. Incited by progressive blogs, ad campaigns, elegy, and Eros, Bibbins addresses environmental catastrophe and grotesque political posturing in our nascent millennium, as well as the corporate media's willingness to front for the worst offenders as it both panders and condescends to audiences drunk on doublespeak. These are songs of passionate and ambivalence sung in a dark time. |
| Contents |
Bring Us a Souvenir from the Next War -- There Is No You Are Everywhere -- Ending in an Abandoned Month -- We, The Reader -- Brightening Elsewhere -- Horoscopes without Telescopes -- Arriving in Your New Country -- Echolocation -- stars of our favorite shows are all in love but not with us -- Blindside -- Here a Narrative, There a Narrative, Everywhere a Narrative Narrative -- Forcefield [HAZARD] -- Redemption -- Bad Science -- Dilemma -- Prophylaxis -- Redshift -- Wherewithout -- I Used to Have the Shampoo -- Viva Isabella Blow -- Microburst -- And Does This Team Look Tasty in Attack -- Prequel: West Broadway -- Give Us the Dark That Keeps the Darkness Out -- Intimacy Keeps Happening Here -- Opiate Coating of Disregard Prevails -- Perfect Day -- When They Are Dying They Don't Know What to Do -- Forcefield [ARDOR] -- What Day Is It the Devil Pisses on the Blackberries? -- Concerning the Land to the South of Our Neighbors to the North -- And Further, More -- Conifers -- It Buds, It Bends, It Dies in the Glare -- We are not kissing and the river -- Analogue -- Every Nowhere Needs One -- Sweetlips and Spangled Emperors -- Little Aggressive Carnivore -- Why don't we split open -- Lovelier Near the End -- Suicides of the '90s -- Devil You Don't. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
American poetry.
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American poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781556592928 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1556592922 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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