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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Tips to help you do your best
  name:
    name part: Carlson, Michael
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 79 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: A record of a poet’s wrestling with how to live and what to do and a provisional manual exploring how to be a better teacher, father, husband, poet, sibling, friend and son. Written over a fifteen-year period, a period in which events and politics seemed to defy reason, the poems collected in Tips to Help You Do Your Best seek an imaginative wisdom on the outskirts of conventional thinking. By writing obsessively about the landscape, the objects that litter it and the people he finds loitering there, Mike Carlson arrives at the emotional truth of his experience, mapping the distance between irreverence and irony, cowardice and courage, condolences and pure clear words. In doing so, he also lays out a theory of poetry, a philosophical, aesthetic and spiritual treatise that values object matter over subject matter. These poems approach understanding by image and rhythm, by light and shadow and by means of encountering motorcycles and mushrooms and silos. While these poems often assume the authoritative and axiomatic tone of a guide book or set of instructions, they are at odds with easy explanation and drudgery.
  note: Mike Carlson.
  classification: PS3603.A753 T56 2025
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9781961209343
  identifier: 1961209349
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250228
    record change date: 20250905164603.3
    record identifier: in00005662160