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American melancholy : poems /

The first poetry collection in twenty-five years by the National Book Award-winning author observes the human heart and mind while exploring subjects ranging from politics and racism to poverty and loss.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
POETRY / American / General.
POETRY / Women Authors.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • I: The coming storm
  • In hemp-woven hammocks reading the Nation
  • Exsanguination
  • Little Albert, 1920
  • Harlow's monkeys
  • Obedience : 1962
  • Loney
  • The coming storm
  • Edward Hopper's "Eleven A.M.," 1926
  • II: The first room
  • The first room
  • Sinkholes
  • That other
  • The mercy
  • The blessing
  • This is not a poem
  • Apocalypso
  • III: American melancholy
  • To Marlon Brando in Hell
  • Too young to marry but not too young to die
  • Doctor help me
  • Old America has come home to die
  • Jubilate : an homage in catterel verse
  • Kite poem
  • American sign language
  • Hometown waiting for you
  • IV: "This is the time ... "
  • Hatefugue
  • A dream of stopped-up drains
  • Bloodline, elegy
  • Harvesting skin
  • "This is the time for which we have been waiting"
  • The tunnel
  • Palliative.