Applause.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muske-Dukes, Carol

Series:

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.

Summary:

Applause is a collection of poems about joy and dread--mirroring the extremes of the contemporary American experience. Joy is defined in motherhood, self-conscious love, friendship--while dread is described through an accelerating sense of doom, and the failure of nearly all prescriptive political solutions to the world's problems. The overall mood is one of bravado in the face of ruin--the metaphor of applause, standing there clapping, well-intentioned in a crumbling world.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Dream

Summer Cold

The Wish Foundation

Skid

Box

The Eulogy

Ideal

Ex-Embassy

Intensive Care

Pediatrics

Vermont Farmhouse, 3 A.M.

After Care

Nineteen Seventy

Monk's House, Rodmell

Pick-Up Sticks

Immunity

Meal Ticket

August 1974: A Tapestry

Asbestos

Applause.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

0-8229-9148-9