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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Put Your Hands in

Put Your Hands in

Hosea, Chris

Paperback

Series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.95

ISBN10: 0807155853
ISBN13: 9780807155851
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Mar 10 2014
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.09
Language: English
Awards: Walt Whitman Award
Exactly a century ago, the Armory Show brought European avant-garde art to New York. We are still experiencing its consequences. Among the works on view was Marcel Duchamp's notorious Nude Descending a Staircase, which a derisive critic wanted to rename 'Explosion in a Shingle Factory.' Both titles come to mind as one reads Chris Hosea's Put Your Hands In, which somehow subsumes derision and erotic energy and comes out on top. Maybe that's because 'poetry is the cruelest month, ' as he says, correcting T. S. Eliot. Transfixed in midparoxysm, the poems also remind us of Samuel Beckett's line (in Watt): 'The pain not yet pleasure, the pleasure not yet pain.' One feels plunged in a wave of happening that is about to crest.--John Ashbery, from his judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award

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