Country, living : a collection of poems / Ira Sadoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadoff, Ira, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

71 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Farmington. ME : Alice James Books, [2020]

Summary:

"As a perennial outsider, the speaker traverses through loneliness, consumerism, and silence, until he sees his personal history as communal. It's a quest to honor the complexity of the mind and heart over time-a quest for justice, love, and compassion. Cultural forces and conventions-repression, prejudice, power regimes- frame feelings of powerlessness, and are explored deeply in this collection. Sadoff's ninth poetry collection seeks to understand why cultural norms have kept people from their fullest, most engaged selves"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1

I Never Needed Things p. 2

A Few Surprising Turns p. 4

Ode to the Defense Mechanism p. 5

Indiana p. 6

By the Meadows of Hay Bales p. 8

Self-Portrait as a Foreign Body p. 9

Heaven and Hell p. 10

Lost p. 12

Self-Portrait with Hawthorne in the Rearview Mirror p. 14

Why Do We Make up Things? p. 16

Self-Portrait with Michelangelo p. 18

Wilderness p. 20

Meditation p. 22

2

Broken Sonnet for the Universe p. 25

Old World/New World p. 26

My Tulsa p. 28

The Defeat of Brooklyn p. 30

Los Angeles, Downtown: 1958 p. 32

Because by This Time p. 34

In the Current Climate p. 36

Stranded on Old US 1, Wrens, Georgia p. 37

Once Was p. 38

This Once p. 39

Ode to Forgetfulness p. 40

Interior with Mickey Mantle p. 42

In My Dream p. 43

Old Selves p. 44

In the Public Sphere p. 45

Ode to Income Inequality p. 46

Patriot p. 47

3

In the House of Wittgenstein p. 51

Thelonious Monk of Weehawken p. 52

Tropical p. 54

In Vienna p. 55

Deathbed Confession p. 58

Emendation p. 60

Self-Portrak with Bill Evans at the Vanguard p. 64

In the Aviary p. 65

I Apologize in Advance p. 66

Story p. 68

A Moment's Calm p. 69

The Word Beautiful p. 70

Ithaca p. 71.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Sadoff, Ira, 1945- Country, living

ISBN:

9781948579100

1948579103

OCLC:

1121083675