The Deathbed Playboy: Poems - Hardcover
Dacey here ranges widely in tones, strategies and forms, a diversity appropriate for one who characteristically meditates on American identity. In these poems, Dacey winds together many strands - our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality - and frames them in a narrative as comic as it is plangent. Surprises in the book include cameo appearances by George Bush and Florence Nightingale as well as a take on J. S. Bach that owes something to the Keystone Cops.
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Once described by Dave Smith as "a one-man symphony," Dacey here also ranges widely in tones, strategies, and forms, a diversity appropriate for one who characteristically meditates on American identity. These poems wind together all of the strands - our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality - and frames them in a narrative as comic as it is plangent.
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Philip Dacey's five previous books of poetry include The Boy Under the Bed (The Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1981) and The Man With Red Suspenders (Milkweed, 1986). He co-edited Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (HarperCollins, 1986). The latest of his many chapbooks is What's Empty Weighs the Most: 24 Sonnets (Black Dirt Press, 1997). Widely published in periodicals and anthologies, he teaches at the Minnesota State University in Marshall. Awards include two NEA fellowships, two Pushcart Prizes, Bush and Loft-McKnight fellowships, and a Fulbright Lectureship in Yugoslavia, as well as prizes from Poetry Northwest, Yankee, Prairie Schooner, Flyway, and The Nebraska Review.
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- PublisherUniv of Washington Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0910055483
- ISBN 13 9780910055482
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages81
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