Miscreants : poems / James Hoch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoch, James, 1967-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

117 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2007]

Summary:

"A wonderful, fresh, and striking collection" (Eavan Boland) from the winner of the 2001 Gerald Cable Book Award. At the heart of this collection is an intense rendering of a young boy's murder and the lives of those who endured it. Reminiscent of the work of B. H. Fairchild and Larry Levis, "Miscreants" investigates memory, family, violence, and the transition from boyhood to adolescence in the decaying, working-class towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Contents:

Acts of Disappearance 13

Bricolage 15

Crop Circle 17

Sound of a Body Falling Off a Bridge 19

Angel of the Station at the End of the Twentieth Century 23

Antarctica 30

Judith and Holofernes 32

Problems with Windows 33

Defenestrations 38

Bobby Almand 43

Late Autumn Wasp 87

The Witmer Boys' Attempts at Fainting the New Goat 88

Leda's Aubade of Sink and Sledge 90

The Court of Forgetting 92

Morning After the Prom 94

Klutz 96

The Car 98

Plato's Aubade at Turkey Hill Mini-Market 99

Blossom 101

Morphine 103

Draft 105

Underground Fence 106

Tree Planting 108

Painting of a Cart 110

All Things End in Fragrance 111.

ISBN:

9780393064865

0393064867

OCLC:

82368028