Children with Enemies
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 2017
80 pages
978-0-226-49862-1 (ISBN)
Description
There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell's fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Part elegist, part fabulist, part absurdist, Dischell writes at the edges of imagination, memory, and experience. By turns outwardly social and inwardly reflective, comic and remorseful, the beautifully crafted poems of Children with Enemies transfigure dread with a reluctant wisdom and come alive to the confusions and implications of what it means to be human.
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Stuart Dischell
Children with Enemies
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09/2017
University of Chicago Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Harmless Poem
- Because You Have Seen It So
- A Different Kind of Person
- The Wharves
- The Passages
- Fragment
- Song of the Compatriots
- When a Child Asks about Angels
- Things Are Changing for Johanna
- "The Sun on Falling Waters Writes the Text"
- In the Sequences of Traffic
- Nothing about Dogs
- The Mysteries of Aurora
- Casualty Event
- Memorial Day, Greensboro
- Ring of Keys
- A Visit to a Strange Land
- His Name Means Handsome
- Proclamation
- The Best for Me
- Why Poseidon Chose My Grandfather
- Others Made It Back Over the Pyrenees
- I Was Busy
- My Uncle's Sketchbook from the Cold War
- Little Narcissus
- A Message from the Herd
- Another Picture of the Future
- The Squash Man
- Couplet on an Ancient Visage
- Standing on Z
- On the Day after My Birthday
- My Famous Broken Heart
- Beneath the Blast
- Questions for the Mariner
- Attic and Basement
- Okay to Others
- Future Girl
- Without Sunglasses
- What Begins in Eros Ends in Elegy
- Evening in the Window (Parts I-IV)
- Song of the Drunken Captain
- If I Had Known You Were Listening
- The Lives of My Friends
- Translation from the Origins of Time
- Notes
