Fair Day in an Ancient Town: Poems (Mineral Point Poetry Series) (Volume 3)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (963 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 194208322X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 52 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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He currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, where he is a PhD candidate and Creative Writing Fellow at The University of Missouri-Columbia. . About the Author Greg Allendorf is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds graduate degrees from The University of Cincinnati and Purdue University. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from such journals as Smartish Pace, Subtropics, The Portland Review, Narrative Northeast, and Gigantic Sequins
This is a collection to make the reader laugh out loud and think deep—and then find a way to be alone under the covers. These are necessary poems for our young century." —Scott Cairns, author of Idiot Psalms. The object of affection is fake-tanned and an idiot but still crashes a dozen lush masturbatory fantasies—or the speaker and his lover meet as shepherds only to eat M&Ms and abandon each other on bingo night. “Elegant and raunchy, tender and brutal, musically, visually, and erotically ravishing, Greg Allendorf’s work is everything I want poetry to be, and I will read this volume again and again.” —Aliki Barnstone, author of Bright Body "It’s April now," complains Allendorf’s speaker, "and still no desperate gift of unreturned yearning." The poems of FAIR DAY IN AN ANCIENT TOWN subvert the glorious, Romantic pastoral into a voice easy to imagine as Walt Whitman’s darkly clever younger brother. "O, the way his mouth confounded me / and folded on my mouth ther
"Five Stars" according to Sarah Heston. Wonderful
. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from such journals as Smartish Pace, Subtropics, The Portland Review, Narrative Northeast, and Gigantic Sequins. He currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, where he is a PhD candidate and Creative Writing Fellow at The University of Missouri-Columbia. Greg Allendorf is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds graduate degrees from The University of