Hoodwinked: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
Autor David Hernandez Introducere de Amy Gerstleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iul 2011
"Ultimately, the lyrics in Hoodwinked read as odes to mortality. They marvel nonstop, unsentimentally, and with necessary ambivalence, at the world as given and the human inability to consistently rise to the exhausting challenge of making every second count. These poems constantly acknowledge that 'all flesh is grass.' They make us hear the wondrous, terrifying hum of impending obliteration, while at the same time never growing immune to beauty, never ceasing to be curious about what the grass itself makes of our common temporal conundrum."
—Amy Gerstler, from the introduction
Inherent untrustworthiness—of received opinion, the trompe l’oeil deceptions of nature, and the workings of our own unfaithful minds—is given its proper menace in David Hernandez’ Hoodwinked. In poems that range from the backyard to Iraq and back again, Hernandez disturbs the surface of contemporary life to reveal barely submerged worlds that, impossible to fathom, make fools of us all.
—Amy Gerstler, from the introduction
Inherent untrustworthiness—of received opinion, the trompe l’oeil deceptions of nature, and the workings of our own unfaithful minds—is given its proper menace in David Hernandez’ Hoodwinked. In poems that range from the backyard to Iraq and back again, Hernandez disturbs the surface of contemporary life to reveal barely submerged worlds that, impossible to fathom, make fools of us all.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781932511963
ISBN-10: 1932511962
Pagini: 73
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Sarabande Books
Colecția Sarabande Books
Seria Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 1932511962
Pagini: 73
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Sarabande Books
Colecția Sarabande Books
Seria Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
Locul publicării:Canada
Recenzii
"Under all the surfaces, is where these zany, ever-present poems roam. You have to pay close attention, reading, to catch up to the riddle and its revelation here. Hernandez is not fooling around, but this book brilliantly fools with our expectations and inability to focus on what's in front of us."
--Carol Muske-Dukes, The Huffington Post
--Carol Muske-Dukes, The Huffington Post
Notă biografică
David Hernandez: David Hernandez’s poetry collections include Always Danger (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in Field, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, AGNI and The Southern Review. He is also the author of two YA novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch, both published by HarperTeen. David lives in Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt. Visit his website at www.DavidAHernandez.com.
Cuprins
1
Questions About Butterflies
Fooling the Buffalo
Trompe L¿Oeil
Moose in Snow
D.F.W.
Remember It Wrong
Proof
Why Maggots
Flipbook
American Water
Mosul
2
Everything I¿m About to Tell You Actually Happened
Self-Portrait with Baby Possum
I Made a Door
At the Post Office
Supermarkets This Large
Panoramic
Obituary
Kindergarten
Snowman
Hornet¿s Nest
Closer
3
Man with Swatter
Victory Song
Challenging Mud (1955)
Doomed (1975)
Retirement Home Melee at the Salad Bar
The Body Yoüre Suited-up In
Phantom Limb
Married And
Hangover
Housefly
4
The Pompous Man
Mosh
Against Erosion
Head Case
Velvet
On Aggression
Fear and Logic
Road Trip
The Big Nothing, or the Gap Between David Letterman¿s Teeth
Questions About Butterflies
Fooling the Buffalo
Trompe L¿Oeil
Moose in Snow
D.F.W.
Remember It Wrong
Proof
Why Maggots
Flipbook
American Water
Mosul
2
Everything I¿m About to Tell You Actually Happened
Self-Portrait with Baby Possum
I Made a Door
At the Post Office
Supermarkets This Large
Panoramic
Obituary
Kindergarten
Snowman
Hornet¿s Nest
Closer
3
Man with Swatter
Victory Song
Challenging Mud (1955)
Doomed (1975)
Retirement Home Melee at the Salad Bar
The Body Yoüre Suited-up In
Phantom Limb
Married And
Hangover
Housefly
4
The Pompous Man
Mosh
Against Erosion
Head Case
Velvet
On Aggression
Fear and Logic
Road Trip
The Big Nothing, or the Gap Between David Letterman¿s Teeth
Descriere
Hernandez' third collection is blunt and undeceived. His odes to mortality are laced with wit and sadness rising like helium.