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Sky lounge / Mark Bibbins.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.I25 S58 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bibbins, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Gay poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 78 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Saint Paul, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Mark Bibbins finds damaged glamour at the fringes of respectability in this exceptional debut collection "I was born" "with capable eyes," "a moveable heart" "and time to spare." - from " Euphorium" In his restless and unpredictable debut, Mark Bibbins offers a virtuosic poetry. Lovers struggle to connect; groupies, hustlers, and corporate drones covet better- or at least different- lives; locations fluctuate, without forewarning, from bars to beaches to city streets. With beguiling tonal and formal variety, these poems question the ordinary and unwitting acceptance of the status quo as they hover where " error arranges itself." As indebted to Stereolab and Siouxsie Sioux as to any poetic lineage, "Sky Lounge" introduces an imagination committed to making irreverence, sensuality, and elegy into a provocative new music.
- Contents:
- Just Yesterday
- If Not to Speak Against
- All but Lost
- Euphorium
- Doldrums
- Arrival with Dark Circles and Premonition
- Tingling in the Extremities
- Now, As Ever
- Birds of Prayer
- Jersey
- Leaving for Good/Enjoying the Ride
- Mesh
- As One Might Have Kissed a Girl One Meant Goodbye
- Groupie
- No Nets
- Continuity
- For This I Went to College
- Breakdown
- No Lot Lizards
- Herethere
- Slutty
- Projections
- Whore of Binghamton
- Little Education Goes a Long Way
- Ethics
- Hiatus
- Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs
- And You Thought You Were the Only One
- Pounce
- Not Again
- Neither Just nor Like
- Immersion In and Of
- Tuna in Spring Water
- Ice along the Road
- After the Smoke Cleared
- Fledglings
- Truncated Elegy
- Knowing You Could Is Better Than Knowing You Will
- Mouth of Sundays
- Not Looking: Incunabular
- By the Skin of Our Luck
- Way to Build It
- Not Looking: Gold Course
- Anodyne Slide
- 7-Minute Song
- Extended Lights
- Not Looking: Helical.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Poetry, Winner, 2004
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bibbins, Mark. Sky lounge.
- ISBN:
- 1555973809
- 9781555973803
- OCLC:
- 51992260
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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