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Same faces / Albert Mobilio.

Van Pelt Library PS3563.O246 S26 2020
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mobilio, Albert, 1955- author.
Contributor:
Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
Language:
English
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
127 pages ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Black Square Editions, [2020]
Summary:
Poetry. Finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. Where are the faces of yesteryear? Is one face easier to wear than another? Questions as crucial as these are left unanswered in Albert Mobilio's fifth book of poems. Instead, the vexed relationship between the physical world --it's tactility and "thereness" --and this phantasm we call persona is interrogated. The sound of thinking in these poems is familiar even as it moves through dictions at once terse and oblique, then plaintive and probing. Gestural turns, which are acrobatic, melodic and wry, fashion missives from the breach between what we say and what we mean. "Ah, literature," Mobilio observes "me lifted by thee wrongly."
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: I
Triumph Of Poverty
In The Wild
Amphitheater
Halfway
Initiation Rite
Moods At Noon
Informal Lull
Notebook Entry
Forest For Trees
The Passersby Pass By
Faults In Place
Saying As You Do
An Implication
Class Dismissed
Salutation
Cross Cut
Missive
Categories Of Apprehension
Signal Scene
Kingdom Come
Wanderers
II. The Same Faces You Can't Believe In
This Dancer Is Out
This Dancer
A Resemblance Between Rivers
Between Rivers
By The Time Summer Arrived
The Time
Maybe It Started
Maybe
Torches Line The Road
The Road
How Prove Each Soul
How Each
I Make Electricity Work
Make Electric
Promised Land On A Postcard
Promised
Your Heart Dulled By Passage
Hear
The Judgment Scene
The Scene
Bed Narrow & Short
Be Narrow
The Ideas Are Ruining
The Ruin
You're Not Strong Enough To Save
Strong Save
The Thing Itself All Heaving
In Itself
In The Midst Of This Widely Unread
The Midst Of This
We Boozing Tired Dogs Lounge
We Boozing
What Good Is Smoking In The Smoking
Hat King
III. Guide for the Discouraged.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
ISBN:
9780999702864
0999702866
OCLC:
1182841676
Publisher Number:
99986142501

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