Ballyhoo Paperback / softback
by Hastings (Senior Lecturer, Coastal Carolina University) Hensel
Part of the Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction series
Paperback / softback
Description
A poetry collection that grapples with the tragicomic nature of language, memory, love, work, and the performative self. Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensel's Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline.
In tightly controlled meditations on language's limits and its necessity, as well as on the many forms that humor takes-comedy, laughter, farce, clowning, parody, and more-Hensel navigates fine lines between joy and sadness, jokes and cruelty, reality and illusion, and irony and sincerity.
Universal in scope, the 47 poems in Ballyhoo are richly idiomatic and evocative.
They are also frequently grounded in the southern Atlantic coast with its particular ecology, characters, history, and myth.
The pleasure in reading these poems comes from the original connections Hensel makes between the literary and the gritty: an elegy set in a bait shop, Twelfth Night's Feste delivering a monologue in a bar, a villanelle about a murder on a cruise ship.
These intelligent, insightful poems remind us of the frail but important relationships between comedy, memory, and identity.
Ballyhoo offers a sobering examination of the tragicomic nature of the world.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:104 pages
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:28/05/2019
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- ISBN:9781421428758
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:104 pages
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:28/05/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781421428758
