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Losers Dream On
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We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces—time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion—win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained—in family life, in romance, in work, in citizenship. What obsesses Halliday in Losers Dream On is how to recognize reality without relinquishing the pleasure and creativity and courage of our dreaming.
Halliday's poetry exploits the vast array of dictions, idioms, rhetorical maneuvers, and tones available to real-life speakers (including speakers talking to themselves). Often Halliday gives a poem to a speaker who is distressed, angry, confused, defensive, self-excusing, or driven by yearning, so that the poem may dramatize the speaker's state of mind while also implying the poet's ironic perspective on the speaker. Meanwhile, a few other poems (for instance "A Gender Theory" and "Thin White Shirts" and "First Wife" and "You Lament") try to push beyond irony into earnestness and wholehearted declaration. The tension between irony and belief is the engine of Halliday's poetry.
Halliday's poetry exploits the vast array of dictions, idioms, rhetorical maneuvers, and tones available to real-life speakers (including speakers talking to themselves). Often Halliday gives a poem to a speaker who is distressed, angry, confused, defensive, self-excusing, or driven by yearning, so that the poem may dramatize the speaker's state of mind while also implying the poet's ironic perspective on the speaker. Meanwhile, a few other poems (for instance "A Gender Theory" and "Thin White Shirts" and "First Wife" and "You Lament") try to push beyond irony into earnestness and wholehearted declaration. The tension between irony and belief is the engine of Halliday's poetry.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Glen
Bus Full of Dinosaurs
Worthy
First Wife
Ernest and Lionel
Hal Dead
Chilled
He Meant
Index to Hamaday: A Questionable Life
Thirteen Balloons
66 Benevolent Street
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About Time
Yearbook Photo
Your New Assignment
Moot
Maria’s Mexican Food
Thin White Shirts
Milano Adesso
Bird’s Shadow
Poured
***
Balancing Act
Tossed Cup
Not Exactly for Talia
Freedom of Speech
Tradeoffs
Boomerang
Whizdizz
Shark Fate
Almost Dusk
After the Major Events
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Angel at Wilkes
Their First Marriage
Sarah Sees Two Runners
A Gender Theory
The Quilmias
Your Paltry Conquests
Shadblow
Been There
Our Love Problem
Midnight, the Stars and You
*****
You Lament
Not Nothing
Whisk Broom
Rolf Smedvig in Particular
But Also
My Other Apartment
Plot Twist
No Vacation for Maigret
Meaning
Acknowledgments
Some of these poems have appeared in journals:
- The Cincinnati Review: “Milano Adesso” and “Our Love Problem”
- T...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glen
- Bus Full of Dinosaurs
- Worthy
- First Wife
- Ernest and Lionel
- Hal Dead
- Chilled
- He Meant
- Index to Hamaday: A Questionable Life
- Thirteen Balloons
- 66 Benevolent Street
- About Time
- Yearbook Photo
- Your New Assignment
- Moot
- Maria’s Mexican Food
- Thin White Shirts
- Milano Adesso
- Bird’s Shadow
- Poured
- Balancing Act
- Tossed Cup
- Not Exactly for Talia
- Freedom of Speech
- Tradeoffs
- Boomerang
- Whizdizz
- Shark Fate
- Almost Dusk
- After the Major Events
- Angel at Wilkes
- Their First Marriage
- Sarah Sees Two Runners
- A Gender Theory
- The Quilmias
- Your Paltry Conquests
- Shadblow
- Been There
- Our Love Problem
- Midnight, the Stars and You
- You Lament
- Not Nothing
- Whisk Broom
- Rolf Smedvig in Particular
- But Also
- My Other Apartment
- Plot Twist
- No Vacation for Maigret
- Meaning