Children with Enemies
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Children with Enemies

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Children with Enemies

About this book

There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell's fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Part elegist, part fabulist, part absurdist, Dischell writes at the edges of imagination, memory, and experience. By turns outwardly social and inwardly reflective, comic and remorseful, the beautifully crafted poems of Children with Enemies transfigure dread with a reluctant wisdom and come alive to the confusions and implications of what it means to be human.

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Information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780226498591
eBook ISBN
9780226498621
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

Acknowledgments
Harmless Poem
Because You Have Seen It So
A Different Kind of Person
The Wharves
The Passages
Fragment
Song of the Compatriots
When a Child Asks about Angels
Things Are Changing for Johanna
“The Sun on Falling Waters Writes the Text”
In the Sequences of Traffic
Nothing about Dogs
The Mysteries of Aurora
Casualty Event
Memorial Day, Greensboro
Ring of Keys
A Visit to a Strange Land
His Name Means Handsome
Proclamation
The Best for Me
Why Poseidon Chose My Grandfather
Others Made It Back Over the Pyrenees
I Was Busy
My Uncle’s Sketchbook from the Cold War
Little Narcissus
A Message from the Herd
Another Picture of the Future
The Squash Man
Couplet on an Ancient Visage
Standing on Z
On the Day after My Birthday
My Famous Broken Heart
Beneath the Blast
Questions for the Mariner
Attic and Basement
Okay to Others
Future Girl
Without Sunglasses
What Begins in Eros Ends in Elegy
Evening in the Window (Parts I–IV)
Song of the Drunken Captain
If I Had Known You Were Listening
The Lives of My Friends
Translation from the Origins of Time
Notes

Acknowledgments

Some of these poems first appeared, sometimes in different versions or under other titles, in the following publications:
Agni: “Evening in the Window, Parts I–IV,” “Questions for the Mariner,” and “Translation from the Origins of Time”
Asheville Poetry Review: “Casualty Event” and “Why Poseidon Chose My Grandfather”
Barnstorm: “Without Sunglasses”
Birmingham Poetry Review: “Another Picture of the Future”
Cerise Press: “The Mysteries of Aurora”
Cortland Review: “Because You Have Seen ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Harmless Poem
  8. Because You Have Seen It So
  9. A Different Kind of Person
  10. The Wharves
  11. The Passages
  12. Fragment
  13. Song of the Compatriots
  14. When a Child Asks about Angels
  15. Things Are Changing for Johanna
  16. “The Sun on Falling Waters Writes the Text”
  17. In the Sequences of Traffic
  18. Nothing about Dogs
  19. The Mysteries of Aurora
  20. Casualty Event
  21. Memorial Day, Greensboro
  22. Ring of Keys
  23. A Visit to a Strange Land
  24. His Name Means Handsome
  25. Proclamation
  26. The Best for Me
  27. Why Poseidon Chose My Grandfather
  28. Others Made It Back Over the Pyrenees
  29. I Was Busy
  30. My Uncle’s Sketchbook from the Cold War
  31. Little Narcissus
  32. A Message from the Herd
  33. Another Picture of the Future
  34. The Squash Man
  35. Couplet on an Ancient Visage
  36. Standing on Z
  37. On the Day after My Birthday
  38. My Famous Broken Heart
  39. Beneath the Blast
  40. Questions for the Mariner
  41. Attic and Basement
  42. Okay to Others
  43. Future Girl
  44. Without Sunglasses
  45. What Begins in Eros Ends in Elegy
  46. Evening in the Window (Parts I–IV)
  47. Song of the Drunken Captain
  48. If I Had Known You Were Listening
  49. The Lives of My Friends
  50. Translation from the Origins of Time
  51. Notes