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Slant Six / Erin Belieu.

Title
Slant Six / Erin Belieu.
Author
Belieu, Erin, 1965-
Publication
Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2014]

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Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
Description
68 pages; 19 cm
Summary
""Erin Belieu. is always ready to surprise, to astonish, and, ultimately, to defy comparison."-Boston Book Review"[One] of America's finest poets."-Robert Olen ButlerErin Belieu's fourth collection, Slant Six, is an inundation of the humor and horror in contemporary American life-from the last saltine cracked in the sleeve, to the kitty-cat calendar in an office cubicle. With its prophecies of impending destruction, and a simultaneous flood of respect for Americans, Erin Belieu's poems close like Ziploc bags around a human heart.From "12-Step":I am considering lighthousesin a completely new light-their butch neutrality, their grand but modest surfaces.A lighthouse could appear here at any moment.I have been making this effort, placing myself in uncomfortable positions,only for the documented health benefits. Erin Belieu is the author of three books, and her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, the New York Times, and the Atlantic. Belieu co-founded VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and currently directs the creative writing program at Florida State University. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida. "--
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Alternative Title
Poems.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • American poetry – 21st century.
  • poetry.
  • Poetry
  • Poésie.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 66).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
ARs poetica for the future -- Someone asks, what makes this poem American? -- Love is not an emergency -- The body is a big sagacity -- I growed no potatoes to write about, sir -- When at a certain party in NYC -- H. Res. 21-1: proposing the ban of push-up bras, etc -- How we count in the south -- 12-step -- Perfect -- Burying it -- Olentangy River -- Fathers never answer -- Victoria Station -- Time machine -- The problem of the domestic -- Energy policy -- With birds -- "A rottenness begins in his conduct -- Poem of philosophical and parental conundrums written in an election year -- Love letter: final visitation -- Field -- Apres Moi.
ISBN
  • 9781556594717 (paperback)
  • 1556594712 (paperback)
LCCN
^^2014015971
OCLC
875240228
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library