| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 79 pages) |
| Series |
South Carolina Poetry Book Prize |
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South Carolina Poetry Book Prize
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; I; A Funny Thing; The Frontier; Marooned; Comfort; Croak; Dress for Success; Drip; Making the Man; Sunset; Instructions; Camaraderie; Erno and Me; Nature; Heroes in Waiting; Pre-Op; At Any Moment; II; Baked into the Cake; Occurrences Around the Bridge; Fall In; Buffaloed; Green Revolver; On the Weekend; Bilderbergers; Outer Marsupials; The Lost Weekend; Go to War; Cougar Dan; Camera Crew; Finely Educated; Once Upon a Time; Making Do; III; The Lesson; The Madman's Divining Time; In Line; Jury Room; From Assembly; Passing Through; Strange Days |
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Stand ToLast Seconds; The Bad Girl Bicycle Poem; When in Rome; The Screw; The Full Record |
| Summary |
Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the fifth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and the first published collection by Worthy Evans. These verses resulted from a spontaneous outpouring of poems, pent up during a fourteen-year hiatus from the craft during which Evans worked as a professional reporter, writer, and editor. Much informed by the rapid-fire pace and cadence of his journalism background, Evans's narrative poems are grounded in concrete images of our shared reality and explore a range of imaginative versions of the poet as confident or frightened, loving or hateful, bold or timid, lost or profound. These poems seek a distinguishing personal truth-a sense of belonging in a world not altogether welcoming, or even that familiar, where violent impulses are as threatening as workday drudgery. In these daydreams given form, Henry Fonda wields the same authority as Henry V or Ward Cleaver. In this landscape where the familiar arches longingly toward the surreal, a cockeyed visionary might just find the right fantasy with which to escape the stultifying confinement of banal modernity, as represented by corporate office space and khaki dress slacks, army motor pools and basic training maneuvers, sprawling cityscapes and the omnipresent pestering responsibilities of adulthood in postmillennial America |
| Notes |
"Published in cooperation with the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, University of South Carolina." |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611171723 |
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1611171725 |
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