Keep this Forever

by Halliday, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781932195729
• ISBN10: 1932195726
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Tupelo Pr

Summary

Poetry. In this, his fifth book of poems, written in the aftermath of his father's death, Mark Halliday proves to be one of America's most intimate poets. Like Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch, Halliday's poems chat with the reader in earnest yet humorous ways and in wholly believable voices. Whether exploring grief or desire or loneliness, these poems never forget the human longing for permanence. "He is prolix and quotidian, a Whitman in a supermarket, a confessional poet who does not take himself very seriously.... His cool patter skewers pomposity..."--The New Yorker. Mark Halliday was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1949, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and then in Westport, Connecticut. He earned a B.A. at Brown University, an M.A. in creative writing at Brown, and a Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University. He has taught at Wellesley College, the University of Pennsylvania, Wilmington Friends School, Indiana University, Western Michigan University, and Ohio University.

Table of Contents

Walker	p. 11
Chicken Salad	p. 12
Skein	p. 14
Last Touch	p. 15
It Was Not Him	p. 16
Milt and Sally	p. 17
Clearing the Apartment	p. 19
Walking the Ashes	p. 21
Dreamhooked	p. 23
Les Morts	p. 25
A Night in 2029	p. 28
Each Minute	p. 29
Do It Deftly	p. 30
No Strategy	p. 31
Google Me Soon	p. 34
Sternly Departing	p. 35
Not Exactly Woody Guthrie	p. 36
Special Heads	p. 37
Confession to Mary	p. 39
Shmedlo Talk	p. 40
Vim	p. 43
Muck-Clump	p. 45
Warren	p. 47
Doric Off to Atlanta	p. 48
Tim Off to Charlotte	p. 49
Bonnie	p. 51
Plot Notes	p. 53
Not That Great of an Evening	p. 56
Olafur of Ljosavik	p. 60
Three Flaws	p. 61
Trip to Vermont (Abridged Version)	p. 63
To You in 2052	p. 65
Down Here	p. 67
Another Point	p. 70
Julie at the Reading	p. 72
Cloud of Luck	p. 74
Agonist	p. 75
Enchanted Field	p. 76
Ask Wendy Wisdom	p. 77
South of Morgantown	p. 79
Guidebook Embarrassment	p. 80
Way Way Up There	p. 83
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