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Imperial
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- As Requested
- Scorcher
- Musial
- Yard Sale
- The Return of Odysseus
- Jane
- Traverse City
- Darkly Shifting Flux
- Norwood
- Attic Shapes
- Arcadia
- Bus Boy
- Tenure
- Mexican Town
- Imperial
- Journal
- Lobsters
- Coupons
- Desire
- Hoses
- Problem
- Black Box
- Far from Afghanistan
- Lint
- Robert Frost
- Treptower Park, Berlin
- Fly Balls
- You Asked For It
- Jazz
- Genius
- Whales
- Basal Cell
- Venus Transit Party
- Eighty Yards
- Royalty
- The Wading Pool
- iPoem
- Prostate Exam
- Faculty Lounge
- One Good Pork Chop
- Airport
- Cyclists
- Indistinct Banquet
- Namaste
- The Prostitutes of Amsterdam
- Walking the Dog
- Mile Marker 17, Outside Calumet, OK
- Weather
- Acknowledgments
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