My Surly Heart
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My Surly Heart

Poems

  1. 72 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

My Surly Heart

Poems

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About This Book

In My Surly Heart, the prolific poet and novelist David Huddle reflects on turning seventy-six years of age and records his aghast reactions to changes brought about by the current president of the United States. Huddle avoids the pitfalls of speechifying, pseudo-philosophizing, or indulging in unmitigated complaint. Instead, he embraces the potential of poetry to use intelligence, wit, language, knowledge, and sense of form to move toward useful revelations. Throughout this idiosyncratic collection of verse, Huddle deploys poem making as a method for psychologically and spiritually navigating from his past to his present life and on into whatever his future may hold. These poems traverse childhood memories, birding adventures, musical reveries, the role of art, and many points in between. My Surly Heart shows a celebrated poet confronting the challenges of age and country with wry humor and unsparing honesty.

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Publisher
LSU Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780807172346
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Where Do You Come From?
  7. What Can You Tell Me About Your Father?
  8. What About Your Mother?
  9. Art for Money
  10. What Are You Up To?
  11. Elrica
  12. Some Kitchens
  13. Girl with Bare Arms
  14. How Do You Pray?
  15. The Lonesome Animal
  16. Is Nothing Sacred?
  17. Take a Look at This
  18. How to Enter a Cosmic Quirk
  19. Before the Concert
  20. What Would You Like?
  21. Is That It?
  22. My Surly Heart
  23. What Can I Say?
  24. Composition as Ethical Inquiry
  25. What?!
  26. The Braid
  27. How Does This Look?
  28. Do You Live Here?
  29. Curmudgeon’s Song
  30. How Old Are You?
  31. Drinking Alone by Moonlight
  32. Are You Happy?
  33. The Househusband Speaks His Piece
  34. Idiosyncrasy
  35. Are You Sure?
  36. Bliss Happens
  37. How Bad Is It?
  38. What Is Wrong With Me?
  39. How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You?
  40. What’s Real?
  41. Where’s Your Faith?
  42. Finch Dream
  43. What Do You Like to Eat?
  44. How Do You Feel About Your Body?
  45. Dumetella Carolinensis
  46. Would You Repeat the Question Please?
  47. Villanelle for Lady Day
  48. O Say Can You See?
  49. Proof that an Old Testament God Exists
  50. Animal Videos as Last-Resort Religious Practice of the Ruined Nation
  51. What Time Is It?
  52. Two and a Half
  53. Trees R Not Us
  54. What’s the Best Death You Can Imagine?
  55. Desirable Madness
  56. Distraction and Composition
  57. Mood Indigo
  58. Acknowledgments