Last pawn shop in New Jersey : poems / James Hoch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoch, James, 1967- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--Poetry.

Masculinity.

Mothers--Death--Poetry.

Mothers.

Afghan War, 2001-2021--Poetry.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 68 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"James Hoch's new poetry collection, Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey, contemplates how it is possible to live in a time of peril and to love someone who inflicts great damage. Navigating emotional experiences that followed his brother's going to war in Afghanistan, Hoch confronts questions about masculinity he encountered while raising his two sons and dealing with the death of his mother from ovarian cancer. Compounding and complicating narratives of history and conquest, apocalypse and erasure, identity and empire, Hoch's poetry investigates the difficulty of loving and of making beauty in times of crisis when faced with knowledge and experience of its limitations and necessity. These themes generate from the interstices of public and personal history, often evoking landscapes with views of the New York water supply system, industrialization along the Hudson River, and the geology of the Palouse, an area of the Pacific Northwest. By turns lyrical and meditative, Hoch's poems accumulate into a bare-knuckled argument for the sublime in the context of war and environmental degradation. Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey asserts the redemptive power of art as survival"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Dedication

Afghanistan

Disgrace and Oblivion in Ancient Rome

Recess

Gainer

Pine Barrens

Self-Portrait as Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey

Poem at the End of a Pier

II. This Drink Tastes Like History

Landscape Resembling My Mother Dying

Elegy with a Landscape of Iceland by Georg GucSni

Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird

Palouse

Puberty with Self-Portrait as Tiffky Dooflcy

Halo

Sunflowers

III. Global Studies

Lithium Bath

Advice to a Son as Garden Statuary

Polycardial

The Ask

Leaving Well Enough Alone

Parking Garage

Primitivo Negativo

Small Orange

The Listening.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Hoch, James. Last pawn shop in new jersey

ISBN:

9780807174050

080717405X

OCLC:

1251740641