The revolver in the hive / Nicolas Hundley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hundley, Nicolas.

Series:

Poets Out Loud

Poets out loud

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Loss (Psychology)--Poetry.

Loss (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Revolver in the Hive takes place in the aftermath of tragedy, where grief is recognizable but contorted into unsettling forms. In this remarkable debut, Nicolas Hundley's poems chronicle with honesty--and often bitter humor--a harrowing journey through loss, death, and mourning. A widow "hauls a sack filled with the limbs of statues," and mourners become "familiar as a pet is familiar, returning years later, / stitched up from experimentation." Juxtaposing such incongruous images, Hundley creates uncanny worlds in which antiquated objects and characters coexist with those from a sinister future, in which wound-dressers and alchemists coexist alongside "heretical machines enacting misdeeds." Religion, fatherhood, and masculinity are all explored in Hundley's tales: A bicycle becomes the subject of worship, inventors act as parents to their machines, and an industrialized human reproduction takes place in factories. In Hundley's hands, words clang together in startling ways, and the repetition of phrases and images leads to unexpected transformations. The poems brilliantly use dream logic to fuel their imagery, even as they call upon a variety of poetic forms--from the prose poem to the sonnet--to evoke literary traditions that recall the gothic and the surreal. Moving and strange, Hundley's poems are unforgettable.

Contents:

Contents

Gothic Novel

Again

The Blood You Let

They

The Ecclesiastic Office of the Bicycle

The Mourners

Sonnet

Portrait with Piano and Axe

Tooth and Blur

Once

The Duplications

Fathering the Machine

That's When I Was Thinking

There Was No Wind

Their Instruments

The Thoughts That Are the Byproduct of Your Existence

Altercations with the Maharajah

The Ill

Allegory of the Well-Dressed Man

Two Poems

Public Record

Etc.

What the Wires Feed

Widow in the Labyrinth

When We Were Impressionable

Burial Practice

Inventing the Code

Braintree

String Theory

What Remains

When the Device Fails

Gallery of Fathers

Meadow Vacant

Notes and Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-5089-X

OCLC:

859687340