Haywire

by Bilgere, George

• ISBN13: 9780874216462
• ISBN10: 087421646X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-31
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

Winner of the 2006 Swenson Poetry Award,Haywire,by George Bilgere, is a collection of poems from an accomplished poet with a direct and unpretentious voice. In images bright and dark, tangible and immanent, Bilgere brings us time after time to the inner reaches of a contemporary life. In subjects ranging from adolescent agony to the loss of parents to the comic pain of middle age, he finds no reason to turn away his gaze, and ultimately no reason not to define himself in joy.

Author Biography

George Bilgere has published three earlier books of poetry, The Going, Big Bang, and The Good Kiss. The Going (1995) received the Devins Award, honoring an outstanding first book of poetry. In 2002, U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins chose The Good Kiss as the winner of the University of Akron Poetry Prize, and also awarded Bilgere, along with Katya Kapovich, the 2002 Witter Bynner Fellowship. Bilgere’s poetry has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. He has received grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Ohio Arts Council and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. New work is forthcoming in Poetry, Field, Denver Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, and Southern Review. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where he teaches at John Carroll University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword by Edward Field	xi
Aria	5	(1)
Birds	6	(1)
This Summer	7	(1)
The Bear	8	(2)
The Surgeon General	10	(1)
That's a Take	11	(1)
Simile Practice	12	(1)
Once Again I Fail to Read an Important Novel	13	(1)
Happy Hour	14	(1)
The Mastodon at the Carnegie Natural History Museum	15	(1)
Janitorial	16	(1)
Say My Name	17	(2)
Petroglyphs	19	(2)
Tosca	21	(4)
Vikings	25	(1)
Miss December	26	(1)
Blood-Soaked Bear Turd	27	(1)
Retards	28	(2)
Good Humor	30	(1)
Haywire	31	(1)
Casablanca	32	(2)
Norelco	34	(1)
What Would Jesus Do?	35	(1)
Unwise Purchases	36	(2)
View of the City of Delft	38	(2)
Anniversary	40	(1)
The Table	41	(2)
Chinese	43	(4)
She's Good	47	(2)
Waiting	49	(2)
Museum Piece	51	(1)
Olympics	52	(1)
Dark Side of the Moon	53	(1)
Going to Bed	54	(1)
Citizen Kane	55	(1)
Global Warming	56