Research Catalog
Imperial / George Bilgere.
- Title
- Imperial / George Bilgere.
- Author
- Bilgere, George, 1951-
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Text | Request in advance | PS3552.I425 I56 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- 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