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Imperial / George Bilgere.

Title
Imperial / George Bilgere.
Author
Bilgere, George, 1951-
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]

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TextRequest in advance PS3552.I425 I56 2014Off-site

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Description
61 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
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.--Amazon.com.
Series Statement
Pitt poetry series
Uniform Title
  • Pitt poetry series
  • Project Muse UPCC books
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry
Note
  • Poems.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 0822962683
  • 9780822962687
OCLC
863789744
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library