Dante Di Stefano

Ill Angels

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Produktbeschreibung

In poems that are at once formally assured and daringly inventive, Di Stefano invokes the lives of artists, musicians, and writers he admires as his poems ruminate on love, death, music, language, and notions of national belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MLM
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9780998750880
• ISBN-10: 0998750883
• Artikelnr.: 53209823

Autorenporträt

Dante Di Stefano is the author of Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight (Brighthorse Books, 2016). His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He is a poetry editor for the Dialogist. Along with María Isabel Alvarez, he is the co-editor of Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America (NYQ Books, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents 1
Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen 2
Reading Rilke in Early Autumn 3
National Poetry Month, 2017 4
National Anthem with Elegy and Talon 5
Elegy with Drowned Sailor and Endless Horizon 6
The Bronx Pyramid 7
Stump Speech 8
Kwansaba Suite from the Heaven of My Departed Poets 10
For My Creative Writing Students 11
Words for My Twelfth Grade English Class, After Reading Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" on Inauguration Day 2017 12
Reading a Single Line by Emily Dickinson on the Day My Father Died 13
Exodus 14
Dreaming of Hokusai at Sloan-Kettering 15
Einstein's Sparrow 17
Solo 19
Fat Tuesday 20
While Listening to Coleman Hawkins' "Picasso," I Remember My Mother as a Young Woman and I Imagine My Wife in Her Old Age 22
The Mayfly's Complaint to the Holy Family 23
Sometimes When I'm Listening to Thelonious Monk 24
Channeling Sonny Rollins 25
Anthem for Paisley Park 26
Outlaw Country 27
While Listening to Dolly Parton Sing "Lover's Return," I Imagine the Girl in You Talking to the Boy in Me 28
Louisiana Hayride Shivaree 29
While Listening to Bob Dylan's "The Man in Me," I Imagine Our Marriage a Montage in a Coen Brothers Film 30
Brief Instructions for Drawing a Portrait of My Wife after the Most Violent Week in Recent U.S. History 31
Portrait of My Wife Listening to Nina Simone 32
Portrait of My Wife as a 90s Mixtape 34
Endless Duende 35
Brass Band Epithalamion 36
Channeling Satchmo 37
Love Poem Written While Listening to "Alligator Crawl" Repeatedly and Misremembering Lines from Kobayashi Issa 38
Epithalamion with References to Philip K. Dick, Paul Klee, and Gene Roddenberry 39
Brief Instructions for Drawing a Self-Portrait While Listening to John Coltrane 40
Dante 42
O Trampling Empire 43
Gerard Manley Hopkins Versus the Wu-Tang 44
Wear Black, Drink Water, Nourish a Fierce Zeal with Locusts and Wild Honey 45
I Am Your High School Love Poem Come Back 46
Reading William Carlos Williams in My Early Twenties 47
Reading William Carlos Williams in My Late Thirties 48
The Porcupine Climbing the Apple Tree 49
Wilding Orchards 50
American Pastoral with Warped Floorboards 51
Verrückt 52
The Greening of Harriet Tubman 53
And Why This Ridiculous Happiness? 54
Elegy for Liu Xiaobo 55
My Goddaughter Chews Happiness 56
Jubilate Pluto 57
Self-Portrait Illuminating the Initial 'D' 58
Preamble 59
The 45th 60
The Sorrowful Mysteries 61
Words for My Wife, After Reading Robert Frost's "West-Running Brook" on Our Anniversary 62
Curriculum Vitae 63
Reading Gwendolyn Brooks to Tenth Graders 64
Sunny 65
Reading Langston Hughes to Our Unborn Child 66
Explaining A Love Supreme to My Unborn Daughter 67
Words for My Unborn Daughter Written After Removing a Briar Patch from My Front Yard and Beginning with a Misremembered Line from a David Ignatow Poem