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American melancholy : poems / Joyce Carol Oates.
Van Pelt Library PS3565.A8 A6 2021b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 112 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Summary:
- The first poetry collection in twenty-five years by the National Book Award-winning author observes the human heart and mind while exploring subjects ranging from politics and racism to poverty and loss.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. The Coming Storm
- In Hemp-Woven Hammocks Reading the Nation
- Exsanguination
- Little Albert, 1920
- Harlow's Monkeys
- Obedience: 1962
- Loney
- The Coming Storm
- Edward Hopper's "Eleven A.M.," 1926
- II. The First Room
- The First Room
- Sinkholes
- That Other
- The Mercy
- The Blessing
- This Is not a Poem
- Apocalypso
- III. American Melancholy
- To Marlon Brando in Hell
- Too Young to Marry But Not Too Young to Die
- Doctor Help Me
- Old America Has Come Home to Die
- Jubilate: An Homage in Catterel Verse
- Kite Poem
- American Sign Language
- Hometown Waiting For You
- IV. "This Is The Time ..."
- Hatefugue
- A Dream of Stopped-Up Drains
- Bloodline, Elegy
- Harvesting Skin
- "This is the Time for Which We Have Been Waiting"
- The Tunnel
- Palliative.
- ISBN:
- 9780063035263
- 006303526X
- OCLC:
- 1234081208
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