Devotions

Devotions

by Smith, Bruce

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"These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're receiving a call or while we're passing through an X-ray machine, the personal is intersected--sometimes violently, sometimes tenderly--with the hum and buzz of the culture. Whether in New York or Tuscaloosa, Seattle or Philadelphia, past or present, the cult…

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  • Full title :Devotions / Bruce Smith.

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"These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're receiving a call or while we're passing through an X-ray machine, the personal is intersected--sometimes violently, sometimes tenderly--with the hum and buzz of the culture. Whether in New York or Tuscaloosa, Seattle or Philadelphia, past or present, the culture carries the burden of race and 'someone's idea of beauty.'"--Book cover.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:x, 88 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780226764351, 0226764354
  • oclc:ocn645708485
  • LC Classification:PS3569.M512
  • Dewey Decimal:811/.54

Table of Contents

Devotion: Coin-op -- Devotion: Horlust -- Devotion: New York, July -- Devotion: Thirst reduction -- Devotion: Redshift -- Devotion: Smoke -- Devotion: High school -- Devotion: Hunan House -- Devotion: Soup -- Devotion: Fort Drum -- Devotion: Medea -- Devotion: Red Roof Inn -- Devotion: Guitar -- Devotion: The burnt-over district -- Devotion: Dub -- Devotion: Obbligato -- Devotion: Rent -- Devotion: Dizzy Gillespie -- Devotion: J's dream -- Devotion: Al Green -- Devotion: Paris -- Devotion: Contraband -- Devotion: New York, 1970 -- Devotion: Josephine P -- Devotion: Changeling -- Devotion: The garment district -- Devotion: Wuthering Heights -- Devotion: Sleep -- Devotion: Bus to Utica -- Devotion: Providence -- Devotion: Syracuse -- Devotion: Syracuse en Rose -- Devotion: Dress -- Devotion: Closer -- Devotion: Flight -- Devotion: Ode -- Devotion: October -- Devotion: Amerika -- Devotion: Rimbaud -- Devotion: The game -- Devotion: Baseball -- Devotion: X -- Devotion: Infant joy -- Devotion: Infant sorrow -- Devotion: The Republic -- Devotion: Active shooter protocol -- Devotion: Car wreck -- Devotion: Nature -- Devotion: The insects -- Devotion: Dusk -- Devotion: Race traitor -- Dev…

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Subjects

American poetry Amerikanisches Englisch Lyrik Poésie Poésie américaine Poetry Poetry as Topic Poetry genre

Writers

Smith, Bruce

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