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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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.