American Melancholy
Poems
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 112 pages ; 24 cm
"Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consicousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history. Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious output of novels and short stories, many of which have become contemporary classics. However, Oates has also always been a faithful writer of poetry. American Melancholy showcases some of her finest work from the last couple of decades. Covering subjects big and small, and written in an immediate and engaging style, this collection touches on both the personal and the political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated along with the upheavals of our modern age; the reality of our current predicaments; and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest. Oates skillfully writes characters ranging from a former doctor at a Chinese People's Liberation Army hospital to Little Albert, a six-month-old infant who took part in a famous study that revealed evidence of classical conditioning in human beings." -- Book jacket.
Contents:
I: The coming storm -- In hemp-woven hammocks reading the Nation -- Exsanguination -- Little Albert, 1920 -- Harlow's monkeys -- Obedience : 1962 -- Loney -- The coming storm -- Edward Hopper's "Eleven A.M.," 1926 -- II: The first room -- The first room -- Sinkholes -- That other -- The mercy -- The blessing -- This is not a poem -- Apocalypso -- III: American melancholy -- To Marlon Brando in Hell -- Too young to marry but not too young to die -- Doctor help me -- Old America has come home to die -- Jubilate : an homage in catterel verse -- Kite poem -- American sign language -- Hometown waiting for you -- IV: "This is the time ... " -- Hatefugue -- A dream of stopped-up drains -- Bloodline, elegy -- Harvesting skin -- "This is the time for which we have been waiting" -- The tunnel -- Palliative.
Subjects:
American poetry -- 21st century.
Political poetry.
POETRY / American / General.
POETRY / Women Authors.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Political poetry.
POETRY / American / General.
POETRY / Women Authors.
ISBN:
9780063035263
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Oat | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |