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Cenotaph : Poems / by Brock Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Brock, author.
- Series:
- Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Miller Williams poetry prize
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- War poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (82 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Finalist, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Out of the contradiction, paradox, loss, and strange beauty of contemporary warfare, Brock Jones brings us Cenotaph, a collection of poems that have as their genesis Jones s deployments to Iraq in 2003 and 2005, when he was in the US Army. These are war poems, but also love poems and hate poems, poems about dying and living, poems about hope and hopelessness. These are poems that beautifully reflect Jones s resignation to and rejection of the impossibility of saying anything definitive or honest about war. These are poems that strive to do what poet Bruce Weigl described as the poet s job: to find some kind of miraculous way that if you work hard enough to get the words right, that which you call horrific and wrong is defeated. Cenotaph is a poet doing the poet s work: trying, hoping to get the words right.
- Contents:
- Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One; Facts; Movie Night: Baghdad, April 2005; Watercolor; Field of View; Alternate Ending; Long Division; Insomnia; Roads; Day after Equinox; Pockets; Zero Gravity; Lifecycle; Waffle House, West Fillmore, April 2006; Handbook of Answers; Alternate Ending; Arkansas; Playlist Autobiography 1976-2006; Invocation; Part Two; Hypothermia; Four Obituaries; Alternate Ending; Eleven Mile; The Less We Know; Translation; Immunity; Survivor; Three Sisters; Rock, Paper, Scissors; Incoming, 3 a.m.; Alternate Ending; Wreckage; Alternate Ending
- Alternate EndingAlong the Road to Bi'aj; Memorial from a Park Bench; Waffle House, Jimmy Carter Blvd., Jan. 2014; Gift of Tongues; Rogue Memories; Postlude
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- "2016 finalist Miller Williams poetry prize"--Page facing title page.
- "Miller Williams poetry prize."
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-586-3
- OCLC:
- 945616460
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