Morning Constitutional

by Magee, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781889793092
• ISBN10: 1889793094
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

"Morning Constitutional would see the awareness of irony as a conduitbetween an instance and its articulation. In Magee's politics, the tit 'n'tat of market-based democracy creates certain ironies that precede their identification through language. In this way, articulating ironyidentifies inequities among us, thereby subverting the power structurethat births/exists through these inequities. Magee's best work occurs inshotgun unions that prove atonally harmonious, where the poet acts as a slap-happy Justice of the Peace for singles-nite divorces who had thepapers signed (ink still wet) by Baudrillard -the associations are aliveand popping (feverishly)."-- Slope

Table of Contents

A Detroit of the Mind	p. 9
The Short Story of Her Life	p. 12
Fate	p. 13
Delta T	p. 15
A Kind of Woman	p. 17
Faye's Story Repeated	p. 19
Bone Dreams	p. 20
Driving At	p. 22
Morning Constitutional	p. 27
Kin I Get a Kinship?	p. 39
The Redcoats are Coming!	p. 41
Poem Beginning With a Line of O'Hara's	p. 43
A Rhetoric of Examples # 7	p. 45
Pledge	p. 46
Stateside	p. 54
In the Nick of Name	p. 56
Death and Circles	p. 58
On the Highway it's Raining	p. 63
Florida	p. 68
AAA	p. 69
The Liquor Talking	p. 70
Pockets	p. 71
April Fools	p. 72
Medium Well	p. 73
Cowboy Poetry	p. 75
Fate (2)	p. 79
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