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Dark Horses: New Poems

Dark Horses: New Poems

X.J. Kennedy
4.4/5 ( ratings)
In Dark Horses prize-winning poet X. J. Kennedy gathers forty-two new poems rich in sound and sense. All display uncommon skill and an ability to treat matters both timeless and contemporary.

From the lighhearted ballad Dancing with the Poets at Piggy's to the darkly meditative lyric The Waterbury Cross, the poems show Kennedy's wide range. There are intimate portraits of a woman veterinarian and a young man dying of AIDS, a song about the Sri Lankan festival of Buddha's tooth, and a stark account of a confrontation with a homeless panhandler. Emily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World on the newly installed answering machine in her Amherst homestead. Finding a Woodpile Skull -- the severed head of a black ant -- makes the poet laugh at his own expense as he plays ham Hamlet to a formic Yorick.

Enlivened by X. J. Kennedy's sardonic humor, wit, and insight into the human condition, the dark horses of this newest collection represent the finely crafted work of one of America's best-known and most widely respected poets.
Language
English
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Release
October 01, 1992
ISBN
0801844843
ISBN 13
9780801844843

Dark Horses: New Poems

X.J. Kennedy
4.4/5 ( ratings)
In Dark Horses prize-winning poet X. J. Kennedy gathers forty-two new poems rich in sound and sense. All display uncommon skill and an ability to treat matters both timeless and contemporary.

From the lighhearted ballad Dancing with the Poets at Piggy's to the darkly meditative lyric The Waterbury Cross, the poems show Kennedy's wide range. There are intimate portraits of a woman veterinarian and a young man dying of AIDS, a song about the Sri Lankan festival of Buddha's tooth, and a stark account of a confrontation with a homeless panhandler. Emily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World on the newly installed answering machine in her Amherst homestead. Finding a Woodpile Skull -- the severed head of a black ant -- makes the poet laugh at his own expense as he plays ham Hamlet to a formic Yorick.

Enlivened by X. J. Kennedy's sardonic humor, wit, and insight into the human condition, the dark horses of this newest collection represent the finely crafted work of one of America's best-known and most widely respected poets.
Language
English
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Release
October 01, 1992
ISBN
0801844843
ISBN 13
9780801844843

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