Nixon and I / Karen Kovacik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kovacik, Karen, 1959-

Series:

Wick poetry chapbook series ; ser. 2, no. 4.

Wick poetry chapbook ; ser. 2, no. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Poetry.

Presidents.

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Poetry.

Nixon, Richard M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (29 p.)

Place of Publication:

Kent, OH : Kent State University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Karen Kovacik's poems are strong, distinctive and thoroughly wonderful works. Her personal poems such as 'Watching My Father Pray' make use of autobiographical detail in a way that is never insular or hermetic. And her Richard Nixon persona poems are stunning, brave, and original. American poetry, and American writing in general, tends to be sadly ahistorical, and the way these poems take on one of history's most loved and hated figures, giving him voice and making him human, is truly impressive. Nixon and I is an amazing debut."-Jesse Lee Kercheval

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Pat Nixon Speaks of Her Husband's Snoring""; ""Nixon on the Pleasures of Undressing a Woman""; ""Watching My Father Pray""; ""What My Father Taught Me About Sex""; ""Nixon's Briefcase by Joseph Cornell""; ""Lawrence Welk""; ""Nixon's Nightmare""; ""Cuba Libre""; ""The Philosopher Nixon at Frisbee""; ""Checkers""; ""Home Movie, 1960""; ""Polish Jokes""; ""Curriculum Vita""; ""Babel""; ""Making Pierogi""; ""Nixon and Nikita in the Kitchen""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781612771632

1612771637