- 72 pages
- English
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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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American PoetryIndex
LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Where Do You Come From?
- What Can You Tell Me About Your Father?
- What About Your Mother?
- Art for Money
- What Are You Up To?
- Elrica
- Some Kitchens
- Girl with Bare Arms
- How Do You Pray?
- The Lonesome Animal
- Is Nothing Sacred?
- Take a Look at This
- How to Enter a Cosmic Quirk
- Before the Concert
- What Would You Like?
- Is That It?
- My Surly Heart
- What Can I Say?
- Composition as Ethical Inquiry
- What?!
- The Braid
- How Does This Look?
- Do You Live Here?
- Curmudgeon’s Song
- How Old Are You?
- Drinking Alone by Moonlight
- Are You Happy?
- The Househusband Speaks His Piece
- Idiosyncrasy
- Are You Sure?
- Bliss Happens
- How Bad Is It?
- What Is Wrong With Me?
- How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You?
- What’s Real?
- Where’s Your Faith?
- Finch Dream
- What Do You Like to Eat?
- How Do You Feel About Your Body?
- Dumetella Carolinensis
- Would You Repeat the Question Please?
- Villanelle for Lady Day
- O Say Can You See?
- Proof that an Old Testament God Exists
- Animal Videos as Last-Resort Religious Practice of the Ruined Nation
- What Time Is It?
- Two and a Half
- Trees R Not Us
- What’s the Best Death You Can Imagine?
- Desirable Madness
- Distraction and Composition
- Mood Indigo
- Acknowledgments
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