Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful
Published on 2. March 2020
78 pages
978-1-945588-64-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is the "e;Age of the Bullet,"e; Matthew Lippman writes in Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful, days in which "e;bullets sprout other bullets in the bullet garden"e; and a caricature of a onesie-wearing president sucking on a pacifier appears on the cover of a national magazine. Lippman's poems are wildly inventive yet grounded in the 21st-century dailyness of parenting and dinner parties and Dunkin Donuts, all of which serve as launch pads into perennial questions of mercy and trust. "e;I don't care what you say about this city,"e; Lippman writes in the title poem whose images recall New York City in the days following 9/11: "e;We sit down together on the sidewalk / and we hold one another."e; These are brash, beautiful poems, big-hearted in their tilt toward sentimentality and their yearning for something more, something better.
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Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Part 1
- If You Don't Want Your Kids to Have Sex Don't Finish the Basement
- Someone Will Love You Many Times
- Hours and Hours of Grass
- The Ocean Is a Flower Called Roberto Clemente
- Still Still Still
- The Saving
- The Infinite Joke of a Freezing Rain of Shuttlecocks
- I Wish
- Human Snowblower
- Glorious and Bored
- Part 2
- Strike a Vogue
- Meat Grinder
- And You Moaned a Little Moan
- The Wheeze in the Wine the Malt in the Mix
- The Age of the Bullet
- A First True Love Big Problem
- Revolutionary Sexuality
- Bodies Are Things to Rescue Themselves
- Joy Ride
- Part 3
- Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful
- Blonde for All the Boys
- Natalie Wanted to Watch NASCAR
- War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
- They Dug Up Their Joy and Buried It Again
- Mingus in the Morning
- That Is Why You Have to Buy Your Kid Astral Weeks
- Roe v. Wade
- Grace
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
