Hazmat : poems / J.D. McClatchy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018, author.

Contributor:

Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Poetry.

Human body.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Summary:

In a chilling new era defined in large part by the presence of hazardous material, J. D. McClatchy offers a series of poems about our original hazmat: the body.

Praised in Time magazine as "poised, architectural, and built to last in the effortlessly disciplined tradition of W. H. Auden, " McClatchy's work has an inimitable formal integrity and profundity. As he examines our physical parts -- elbows, heart, penis, skin -- he plunges as well into other risky extremities, from cancer to jihad. Taken together, these poems form an exacting portrait of not just the body but the human soul, and the passions that propel us.

Contents:

Fado (starting p. 3)

Glanum (starting p. 5)

Largesse (starting p. 9)

Tankas (starting p. 11)

Jihad (starting p. 15)

Orchid (starting p. 17)

Cancer (starting p. 19)

Elbows (starting p. 21)

Penis (starting p. 23)

Feces (starting p. 27)

Tattoos (starting p. 32)

Pibroch (starting p. 47)

Aden (starting p. 48)

Motets (starting p. 50)

Ouija (starting p. 75)

Acknowledgments (starting p. 83)

Notes:

"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.

Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Poetry, Winner, 2003

Other Format:

Online version: McClatchy, J.D., 1945- Hazmat.

ISBN:

0375414673

9780375414671

0375709916

9780375709913

OCLC:

48943755

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