My Favorite Tyrants by Joanne Diaz (English) Paperback Book

Description: My Favorite Tyrants by Joanne Diaz Winner of the 2014 Brittingham Prize in Poetry Crossing many geographies and eras, the poems of My Favorite Tyrants lyrically explore why tyranny is so compelling, even seductive. Joanne Diaz s powerful and provocative collection is marked by the exploration of desire, grief, and loss in a world where private relationships are always illuminated by larger, more despotic forces." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the 2014 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye.The word "tyrant" carries negative connotations, but in this new collection, Joanne Diaz tries to understand what makes tyranny so compelling, even seductive. These dynamic, funny, often poignant poems investigate the nature of tyranny in all of its forms—political, cultural, familial, and erotic. Poems about Stalin, Lenin, and Castro appear beside poems about deeply personal histories. The result is a powerful exploration of desire, grief, and loss in a world where private relationships are always illuminated and informed by larger, more despotic forces. Author Biography Joanne Diaz is an assistant professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, USA. She is the author of an earlier collection of poems, The Lessons, and her poetry has appeared in AGNI, The American Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other publications. She is also a past recipient of writing fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1 The Perimeter of Pleasure Larry David on Corregidor Little Terror Pyrrhic Duende Motor City 77 Porter Street The anatomy of my melancholy Dog Whisperer Queen Bee Archaeology a la Turka Thank You, Brian Williams 2 Elegy Erasure Barbershop Purgatory Blues Adamantine The Nurse What My Father Eats Cuba Libre Demeters Last Stand Two Emergencies The Watch List Visit to Fox Hill Cemetery Resile In my fathers favorite photo Emerson in Mourning A Billerica Romance 3 Metastasis Pride and Prejudice Take Up and Read Metastasis, Boracay Uncle Ming Pinched Me My Funny Valentine In Praise of Silence On the Meeting of Larry David and Antonin Artaud The Appalachian Italian Americans Notes Review "[Diazs] poems are nakedly aware of political realities while possessed of an urgent grace."--Library Journal "Exquisitely attentive to the given world, to history, to the human heart, to the cadence of words: the poems in this volume share all the virtues of Joanne Diazs earlier work. What is new is the freer discursive range and the sharpened abutments of tenderness and astringency. Elegy meets social satire in these pages, the TSA watch list meets an elegant Persian poetic form. In the world these poems refuse to disown, sorrow smells like Lysol in the toilet stalls and bounty is undaunted by formica: its a joy to see how largeness of spirit and clear-eyed penetration can sustain one another. Her favorite tyrants? Above all, the dictates of memory and love."--Linda Gregerson"Forged of equal parts brains and brass, these poems bleed and shine and all but blind us. How wild they are, how beautiful! I love the way Joanne Diaz uses light and noise to tell us more than any history book can of the tyrants who distort yet give meaning to our lives: Castro, Stalin, our teachers, our parents, ourselves."--David Kirby"Rich with smart, deft scenes--places you may not have been before, exactly, but feel strangely at home in. Congratulations to this transporting, potent, poet."--Naomi Shihab Nye, Brittingham Prize judge Prizes Winner of Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Poetry) 2015 Review Quote Rich with smart, deft scenes Excerpt from Book Dont get me wrong-- I have my favorite tyrants. When the boots are shiny and the hair neatly combed, it means that a group of people, however misguided, lusty, or downright hateful, have collectively agreed to make a fuss, be modern, and, if not handsome, at least clean. And that cleanliness has always counted for a lot in a world where its promise is a kind of food. --excerpt from "a la Turka" Details ISBN0299297845 Author Joanne Diaz Short Title MY FAVORITE TYRANTS Publisher University of Wisconsin Press Series Brittingham Prize in Poetry Language English ISBN-10 0299297845 ISBN-13 9780299297848 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint University of Wisconsin Press Place of Publication Wisconsin Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2016-09-27 NZ Release Date 2016-09-27 UK Release Date 2016-09-27 Pages 80 Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-02-28 DEWEY 821.92 Audience General US Release Date 2014-02-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161890283;

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