Imperial by Bilgere, George

Imperial (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822962687)

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Format: Paperback
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Imperial by Bilgere, George

Imperial

$18.00
Imperial by Bilgere, George

Imperial

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in mid-America. In poems that range from the Cold War anxieties of the 1950s to the perils and predicaments of an aging Boomer in a post-9/11 world, Bilgere's rueful humor and slippery syntax become a trapdoor that at any moment can plunge the reader into the abyss. In Bilgere's world a yo-yo morphs into an emblem for the atomic bomb. A spot of cancer flames into the Vietnam War. And the death of a baseball player reminds us, in this age of disbelief, of the importance--the necessity--of myth.

Author: George Bilgere
ISBN-10: 0822962683
ISBN-13: 9780822962687
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2014
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.25w x 0.28d
By George Bilgere
By George Bilgere
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George Bilgere is the author of five previous poetry collections, most recently The White Museum, which was chosen by Alicia Suskin Ostriker for the Autumn House poetry series. His third book, The Good Kiss, was selected by Billy Collins to win the University of Akron Poetry Award. He has won numerous other awards, including the Midland Authors Award, the May Swenson Poetry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Bilgere is the recipient of grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, and the Ohio Arts Council. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, Fulcrum, and the Best American Poetry series.

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