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Millennial Teeth
Title:
Millennial Teeth
Author:
Albergotti, Dan.
ISBN:
9780809333547
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (82 p.)
Series:
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Neither; Apology in Advance; Invocation; Chapter One, Verse One; Aphelion & Aphasia; He Believes He Is Some Sort of Savior; After Thebes; Surprising the Gods; Dusty Field, Dog Barking; Ghazal for Buildings; What They're Doing; Christina Sestina; God; Ghazal for Children; The Gods Have Given Up on Immortality; What Everyone Knows; December 25, 2005; Two; Aubade; Gloria Patri; A Theater near You; Infamy; Ghazal of Air; Exeunt Voltemand and Cornelius; Anecdote of the Plate; Afterlife; Keen & Koan; Declaring a Draw; Some Other Day

What I Wanted to Tell Her about HellThree; Inside; No Beginning; The Days of Our Lives; Final Fanfare; Ars Poetica; Disorder; Your Home Is at Risk If You Do Not Keep Up Repayments; These Be Hectoring Large-Scale Verses; For Forgetting; Holy Night; Ghazal of Days; Is It Okay If We Don't Oscillate Tonight?; Splinter & Sneeze; Outside; Years and Years and Years Later; Nor; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover
Abstract:
Both bleak and bewildering, Millennial Teeth, the visceral new collection by poet Dan Albergotti, maps a contradictory journey filled with longing and dread, cynicism and hope. A heady mix of traditional forms and more experimental verse, Albergotti's volume lures readers inexorably into the poet's obsessions with mystery, doubt, ephemerality, and silence.The poetry in Millennial Teeth will feel both refreshingly new and strangely familiar to Albergotti's audience. Some poems pay direct tribute to such literary luminaries as Wallace Stevens and Philip Larkin, while others give nods to icons of.
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