Imperial.
Title:
Imperial.
Author:
Bilgere, George.
ISBN:
9780822979623
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (72 pages)
Series:
Pitt Poetry Series
Contents:
Contents -- As Requested -- Scorcher -- Musial -- Yard Sale -- The Return of Odysseus -- Jane -- Traverse City -- Darkly Shifting Flux -- Norwood -- Attic Shapes -- Arcadia -- Bus Boy -- Tenure -- Mexican Town -- Imperial -- Journal -- Lobsters -- Coupons -- Desire -- Hoses -- Problem -- Black Box -- Far from Afghanistan -- Lint -- Robert Frost -- Treptower Park, Berlin -- Fly Balls -- You Asked for It -- Jazz -- Genius -- Whales -- Basal Cell -- Venus Transit Party -- Eighty Yards -- Royalty -- The Wading Pool -- iPoem -- Prostate Exam -- Faculty Lounge -- One Good Pork Chop -- Airport -- Cyclists -- Indistinct Banquet -- Namaste -- The Prostitutes of Amsterdam -- Walking the Dog -- Mile Marker 17, Outside Calumet, OK -- Weather -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in mid-America. In poems that range from the Cold War anxieties of the 1950s to the perils and predicaments of an aging Boomer in a post-9/11 world, Bilgere's rueful humor and slippery syntax become a trapdoor that at any moment can plunge the reader into the abyss. In Bilgere's world a yo-yo morphs into an emblem for the atomic bomb. A spot of cancer flames into the Vietnam War. And the death of a baseball player reminds us, in this age of disbelief, of the importance-the necessity-of myth.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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