From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens. In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a "fatal diagnosis," how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body "meant to bend & breed" opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless? Why do we think our "common griefs" so singular? Bad Hobby is a hard-earned meditation on questions like these-a dreamscape speckled with swans, ghosts, and weather updates. Fagan writes with a kind of practical empathy, lamenting…mehr
From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens. In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a "fatal diagnosis," how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body "meant to bend & breed" opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless? Why do we think our "common griefs" so singular? Bad Hobby is a hard-earned meditation on questions like these-a dreamscape speckled with swans, ghosts, and weather updates. Fagan writes with a kind of practical empathy, lamenting pain and brutality while knowing, also, their inevitability. A dementing father, a squirrel limp in the talons of a hawk, a "child who won't ever get born": with age, Fagan posits, the impact of ordeals like these changes. Loss becomes instructive. Solitude becomes a shared experience. "You think your one life precious-"And Bad Hobby thinks-hard. About lineage, about caregiving. About time. It paces "inside its head, gazing skyward for a noun or phrase to / shatter the glass of our locked cars & save us." And it does want to save us, or at least lift us, even in the face of immense bleakness, or loneliness, or the body changing, failing. "Don't worry, baby," Fagan tells us, the sparrow at her window. "We're okay."
Kathy Fagan is the author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. She is also the author of four previous collections, including The Charm; The Raft, winner of the National Poetry Series; and MOVING & ST RAGE, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize. Fagan’s work has appeared in venues such as the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, the New Republic, Best American Poetry, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and served as the Frost Place poet in residence. Fagan is cofounder of the MFA program at The Ohio State University, where she teaches poetry, and coedits the Wheeler Poetry Prize Book Series for The Journal and The Ohio State University Press.
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Dedicated Forest Stray Animal Prudence Cooper’s Hawk Farm Evening in the Blue Smoke At the Champion Avenue Low-Income Senior & Child Care Services Center AccuWeather: Real Feel Keelson Dahlia Foreshortening Cognition My Father Bad Hobby
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Empire Fountain The Rule of Three Helvetica Omphalos The Ghost on the Handle Predator Satiation AccuWeather: Episodes of Sunshine The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs Birds Are Public Animals of Capitalism Personal Item The Children “Where I Am Going”/“I Dare to Live” Topless Mint Morning
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Latecomer What Kind of Fool Am I Conqueror School AccuWeather: Windy, with Clouds Breaking Window Trace Wisdom Aftermath My Mother Ohio Spring Jingo Snow Moon & the Dementia Unit Scarlet Experiment Lucky Star Inactive Fault, with Echoes
Dedicated Forest Stray Animal Prudence Cooper’s Hawk Farm Evening in the Blue Smoke At the Champion Avenue Low-Income Senior & Child Care Services Center AccuWeather: Real Feel Keelson Dahlia Foreshortening Cognition My Father Bad Hobby
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Empire Fountain The Rule of Three Helvetica Omphalos The Ghost on the Handle Predator Satiation AccuWeather: Episodes of Sunshine The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs Birds Are Public Animals of Capitalism Personal Item The Children “Where I Am Going”/“I Dare to Live” Topless Mint Morning
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Latecomer What Kind of Fool Am I Conqueror School AccuWeather: Windy, with Clouds Breaking Window Trace Wisdom Aftermath My Mother Ohio Spring Jingo Snow Moon & the Dementia Unit Scarlet Experiment Lucky Star Inactive Fault, with Echoes
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