Put Your Hands In : Poems EPUB
by Chris Hosea
Part of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets series
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"Exactly a century ago, the Armory Show brought European avant-garde art to New York. We are still experiencing its consequences. Among the works on view was Marcel Duchamp's notorious Nude Descending a Staircase, which a derisive critic wanted to rename 'Explosion in a Shingle Factory.' Both titles come to mind as one reads Chris Hosea's Put Your Hands In, which somehow subsumes derision and erotic energy and comes out on top. Maybe that's because 'poetry is the cruelest month,' as he says, correcting T. S. Eliot. Transfixed in midparoxysm, the poems also remind us of Samuel Beckett's line (in Watt): 'The pain not yet pleasure, the pleasure not yet pain.' One feels plunged in a wave of happening that is about to crest." -- John Ashbery, from his judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award
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- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:LSU Press
- Publication Date:10/03/2014
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- ISBN:9780807155875
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:LSU Press
- Publication Date:10/03/2014
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- ISBN:9780807155875
