- 68 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Live from the Homesick Jamboree
About this book
Live from the Homesick Jamboree is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry on growing up female during the 1970s, "when everything was always so awash" that the speaker finds herself adrift among adults who act like children. The book moves from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with the headlong perceptiveness and brio characteristic of Adrian Blevins's work. This poetry is plainspoken and streetwise, brutal and beautiful, provocative and self-incriminating, with much musicality and a corrosive bravura, brilliantly complicated by bursts of vernacular language and flashes of compassion. Whether listening to Emmylou Harris while thinking she should be memorizing Tolstoy, reflecting on her "full-to-bursting motherliness," aging body, the tensions and lurchings of a relationship, or "the cockamamie lovingness" of it all, the language flies fast and furious. As the poet Tony Hoagland wrote of Blevins's previous book, The Brass Girl Brouhaha, "this is the dirty, trash-talking, highly edified real thang."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- How To Drown A Wolf
- The Hospitality
- The Theatre People
- Ode To The Fish Fry
- Origin Of The Species
- Weaning Electra
- School Of The Arts
- In The Almost-Evening Of Almost-Canada
- Nocturne
- First Fall In Maine
- Live From The Homesick Jamboree
- Novelette
- Big Rain Day
- Country Song
- Semantic Relations
- Poem For My Daughter August Disparaging The Gossamer Depictions Of The Women Of Certain Southern Texts
- First Winter In Maine
- Why The Marriage Failed
- Firstborn
- Morning Song
- Jesus Saves
- Watching The Newshour
- Cv Rider
- Dream In Which I Find Myself Confronted Yet Again With Why The Marriage Failed
- Dear New Mothers Of America
- Why The Marriage Failed Ii
- Dear Reader
- Hey You
- The Second Marriage
- Sin City
- How We Talk
- The Way She Figured He Figured It
- If The Universe Sends Me A Grip
- The Waning
- The Imperative Sentence
- Now There’S A River
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About The Author