My favorite tyrants / Joanne Diaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diaz, Joanne, author.

Series:

Brittingham prize in poetry (Series)

The Brittingham prize in poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

69 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]

Summary:

The word "tyrant" carries negative connotations, but in this new collection, Joanne Diaz tries to understand what makes tyranny so compelling, even seductive. These dynamic, funny, often poignant poems investigate the nature of tyranny in all of its forms-political, cultural, familial, and erotic. Poems about Stalin, Lenin, and Castro appear beside poems about deeply personal histories. The result is a powerful exploration of desire, grief, and loss in a world where private relationships are always illuminated and informed by larger, more despotic forces. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Perimeter of Pleasure

Larry David on Corregidor 3

Little Terror 5

Pyrrhic 6

Duende 7

Motor City 9

77 Porter Street 10

The anatomy of my melancholy 12

Dog Whisperer 14

Queen Bee 15

Archaeology 17

a la Turka 19

Thank You, Brian Williams 21

2 Elegy

Erasure 25

Barbershop 26

Purgatory Blues 27

Adamantine 29

The Nurse 31

What My Father Eats 32

Cuba Libre 34

Demeter's Last Stand 37

Two Emergencies 39

The Watch List 41

Visit to Fox Hill Cemetery 42

Resile 44

In my father's favorite photo 46

Emerson in Mourning 47

A Billerica Romance 48

3 Metastasis

Pride and Prejudice 53

Take Up and Read 54

Metastasis, Boracay 57

Uncle Ming Pinched Me 59

My Funny Valentine 62

In Praise of Silence 64

On the Meeting of Larry David and Antonin Artaud 66

The Appalachian Italian Americans 68.

ISBN:

9780299297848

0299297845

OCLC:

855209344