Imperial
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Imperial

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Imperial

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In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in mid-America. In poems that range from the Cold War anxieties of the 1950s to the perils and predicaments of an aging Boomer in a post-9/11 world, Bilgere's rueful humor and slippery syntax become a trapdoor that at any moment can plunge the reader into the abyss. In Bilgere's world a yo-yo morphs into an emblem for the atomic bomb. A spot of cancer flames into the Vietnam War. And the death of a baseball player reminds us, in this age of disbelief, of the importance—the necessity—of myth.

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780822979623
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. As Requested
  7. Scorcher
  8. Musial
  9. Yard Sale
  10. The Return of Odysseus
  11. Jane
  12. Traverse City
  13. Darkly Shifting Flux
  14. Norwood
  15. Attic Shapes
  16. Arcadia
  17. Bus Boy
  18. Tenure
  19. Mexican Town
  20. Imperial
  21. Journal
  22. Lobsters
  23. Coupons
  24. Desire
  25. Hoses
  26. Problem
  27. Black Box
  28. Far from Afghanistan
  29. Lint
  30. Robert Frost
  31. Treptower Park, Berlin
  32. Fly Balls
  33. You Asked For It
  34. Jazz
  35. Genius
  36. Whales
  37. Basal Cell
  38. Venus Transit Party
  39. Eighty Yards
  40. Royalty
  41. The Wading Pool
  42. iPoem
  43. Prostate Exam
  44. Faculty Lounge
  45. One Good Pork Chop
  46. Airport
  47. Cyclists
  48. Indistinct Banquet
  49. Namaste
  50. The Prostitutes of Amsterdam
  51. Walking the Dog
  52. Mile Marker 17, Outside Calumet, OK
  53. Weather
  54. Acknowledgments