Devotions
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In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur. Bulletins and interruptions come from brutal elsewheres and from the interior where music puts electrodes on the body to take an EKG. These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're driving, while riding a bus, while receiving a call, while passing through an X-ray machine, the personal is intersected—sometimes violently, sometimes tenderly—with the hum and buzz of the culture. The culture, whether New York or Tuscaloosa, Seattle or Philadelphia, past or present, carries the burden of race and "someone's idea of beauty." The poems fluctuate between the two poles of "lullaby and homicide" before taking a vow to remain on earth, to look right and left, to wait and to witness.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780226764368
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Devotion: Coin-op
  4. Devotion: Hörlust
  5. Devotion: New York, July
  6. Devotion: thirst reduction
  7. Devotion: Redshift
  8. Devotion: Smoke
  9. Devotion: High School
  10. Devotion: Hunan House
  11. Devotion: Soup
  12. Devotion: Fort Drum
  13. Devotion: Medea
  14. Devotion: Red Roof Inn
  15. Devotion: Guitar
  16. Devotion: The Burnt-Over District
  17. Devotion: Dub
  18. Devotion: Obbligato
  19. Devotion: Rent
  20. Devotion: Dizzy Gillespie
  21. Devotion: J’s Dream
  22. Devotion: Al Green
  23. Devotion: Paris
  24. Devotion: Contraband
  25. Devotion: New York, 1970
  26. Devotion: Josephine P
  27. Devotion: Changeling
  28. Devotion: The Garment District
  29. Devotion: Wuthering heights
  30. Devotion: Sleep
  31. Devotion: Bus To Utica
  32. Devotion: Providence
  33. Devotion: Syracuse
  34. Devotion: Syracuse en Rose
  35. Devotion: Dress
  36. Devotion: Closer
  37. Devotion: Flight
  38. Devotion: Ode
  39. Devotion: October
  40. Devotion: Amerika
  41. Devotion: Rimbaud
  42. Devotion: The Game
  43. Devotion: Baseball
  44. Devotion: X
  45. Devotion: Infant Joy
  46. Devotion: Infant Sorrow
  47. Devotion: The Republic
  48. Devotion: Active Shooter Protocol
  49. Devotion: Car Wreck
  50. Devotion: Nature
  51. Devotion: The Insects
  52. Devotion: Dusk
  53. Devotion: Race Traitor
  54. Devotion: Futurismo
  55. Devotion: Sun
  56. Devotion: Midrash
  57. Devotion: Crows
  58. Devotion: Roman
  59. Devotion: The Unbidden
  60. Devotion: Fly