Holoholo : Poems / Barbara Hamby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamby, Barbara, 1952- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 96 p..)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Holoholo is the Hawaiian word for walking out with no destination in mind. In the three sections of this book, Barbara Hamby walks out into the current American chaos with its inferno of wars, street violence, apocalyptic fantasies, and racial tension. Fueled by an American lingo that embraces slang, Yiddish, street talk, and the yearning to be able to describe her moment in time, these poems encompass the complicated past, difficult present, and unknown future. Every foray offers a glimpse of the world constructed from one woman's collage of consciousness."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Ode to the Sacred Heart of Everyone, Including You and You and You

My Holoholo Odes

Ode on Going Holoholo and Getting Lost

Ode on Killing Sadness

Ode on Gauguin, Russia, Arles, and Consciousness

Ode to San Giorgio of the Gorgeous Brassieres

Ode on the Brides of India

Ode to Words for Smell

Ode to Words for Sounds

Ode on Things I Cannot See

Ode to the Dogs of Valparaiso

Ode to Neruda's Hats in Isla Negra

Ode on Girlfriends, the Brain, and Those Little Cookies You Dip in Wine

Ode to Drawing Donatello's David Again

Ode to Poets in Paris with Oysters and Lies

Ode to Driving on Venice Boulevard with Emily Dickinson

Ontological Odes

Ode to Marivaudage, Ratiocination, and Blahblahblah

Ode on My Nightingale

Ode to My Younger Self

Ode to the DNA Cocktail (Shake That Baby, Oh Yeah)

Ode on Anger, the Dalai Lama, and Elliot's Red Boots

Ode on My Blindness

Ode on Following My Mind

Ode to My Green Gloves

Ode to Yiddish, Gratitude, and the Feeling You Have for Someone You Once Loved but Love No More

Ode on the Moon, Pontormo, and Losing My Mind

Ode on the End of the World

Ode to the Middle of the Night

Intro

Contents

Americanski Odes

Ode on Fire

Ode on My Prison

Ode on My Mother's Lingo

Ode on the Funny Papers

Ode on My Grandmother the Mohel

Ode on Departed Slang

Ode on the Diner

Ode to Dime Stores and Their Lunch Counters, Bins of Penny Candy, and Pretty Lipsticks All in a Row

Ode to Laundromats

Ode on Words for Parties (American Edition)

Ode on Spring, Spontaneous Bang Requests, Dance Scenes in Movies

Ode on Being Backwards and Inside Out and in a Wreck with Myself

Ode to the Last Peach of Summer

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Notes -- Acknowledgments.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780822988298

0822988291

OCLC:

1237404577