Last pawn shop in New Jersey : poems /

James Hoch's new poetry collection, Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey, contemplates how it is possible to live in a time of peril and to love someone who inflicts great damage. Navigating emotional experiences that followed his brother's going to war in Afghanistan, Hoch confronts questions abo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoch, James, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022].
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Table of Contents:
  • Prayer for That Little Exhaustion of Light
  • I
  • Dedication
  • Afghanistan
  • Disgrace and Oblivion in Ancient Rome
  • Recess
  • Gainer
  • Pine Barrens
  • Self-Portrait as Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey
  • Poem at the End of a Pier
  • II
  • This Drink Tastes Like History
  • Landscape Resembling My Mother Dying
  • Elegy with a Landscape of Iceland by Georg Guðni
  • Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird
  • Palouse
  • Puberty with Self-Portrait as Tiffky Doofky
  • Halo
  • Sunflowers
  • III
  • Global Studies
  • Lithium Bath
  • Advice to a Son as Garden Statuary
  • Polycardial
  • The Ask
  • Leaving Well Enough Alone
  • Parking Garage
  • Primitivo Negativo
  • Small Orange
  • The Listening.