{"product_id":"regular-haunts-9781496205865","title":"Regular Haunts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eGerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious in tone.His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory, popular, consumer culture of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Costanzoevokes a sense of having arrived on the scene too late, of having missed the heyday of American innocence and possibility, and now—in the present—is forced to live with diminished experience. Hemourns a culture where genuine emotion cannot be foundbut where its semblance can be endlessly marketed.\u003ci\u003eRegular Haunts\u003c\/i\u003eis a retrospective collection of Costanzo’s work that also includes nearly thirty new poems.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrevious praise for Gerald Costanzo’s poetry:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Costanzo is a grief-ridden observer of the \u003ci\u003ekulchur\u003c\/i\u003e. He reminds us of what we had, what we lost, perhaps what we never knew— and he does it in a mature, wise, lovely cadence. He is smart yet humble, full of pity for all of us, full of amazement. ‘When I first heard about America,’ he says, ‘it was already too late.’ He is one of our prophets.”—Gerald Stern\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“This is truly poetry in the American grain. Costanzo looks unflinchingly at our totems, artifacts, and folkways and sets them down just as they are, with a deadly but affectionate irony.”—Carolyn Kizer\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Costanzo’s wit and satire and vision of the grotesque world of America get to the center of much of the madness of our culture.”—Peter Balakian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Ted Kooser    \u003cbr\u003e New Poems\u003cbr\u003e I. American RiverArabesques and Bottle Blondes    \u003cbr\u003e Provincetown    \u003cbr\u003e American River    \u003cbr\u003e Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell    \u003cbr\u003e Deathgrass at the Wheeler Summerfest    \u003cbr\u003e Tinnitus    \u003cbr\u003e Memory and Loss    \u003cbr\u003e Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo    \u003cbr\u003e The Lives They Lead    \u003cbr\u003e Stories        \u003cbr\u003e Minnie’s Death    II. Regular HauntsThe Big Heat    \u003cbr\u003e Blood on the Moon    \u003cbr\u003e Stairway to an Empty Room    \u003cbr\u003e A Graveyard to Let    \u003cbr\u003e Downtown    \u003cbr\u003e The Longest Second    \u003cbr\u003e The Out Is Death    \u003cbr\u003e Blood of Poets    \u003cbr\u003e City of Whispering Stone    \u003cbr\u003e Judge Me Not    \u003cbr\u003e The Gentle Hangman    \u003cbr\u003e The Winter People    \u003cbr\u003e Invitation to Violence    \u003cbr\u003e Deadline at Dawn    \u003cbr\u003e Havana Run    \u003cbr\u003e Spend Game    Previous Poems\u003cbr\u003e I. The Sacred Cows of Los AngelesThe Sacred Cows of Los Angeles    \u003cbr\u003e Snake        \u003cbr\u003e “What Youngstown Needs Is Good Representation”     \u003cbr\u003e Introduction of the Shopping Cart    \u003cbr\u003e Houdini Disappearing in Philadelphia    \u003cbr\u003e For Four Newsmen Murdered in Saigon    \u003cbr\u003e Newlywed    \u003cbr\u003e Badlands    \u003cbr\u003e The Resurrection of Lake Erie    \u003cbr\u003e Dinosaurs of the Hollywood Delta    II. Living the Good Life on the San Andreas FaultLiving the Good Life on the San Andreas Fault    \u003cbr\u003e The Problems, the Models    \u003cbr\u003e The Riot of Nickel Beer Night    \u003cbr\u003e Manhattan as a Latin American Capital    \u003cbr\u003e In the Aviary    \u003cbr\u003e Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard    III. At Irony’s PicnicThe Rise of the Sunday School Movement    \u003cbr\u003e Braille        \u003cbr\u003e Grasshoppers    \u003cbr\u003e Flagpole Sitter    \u003cbr\u003e Seeing My Name in TV Guide    \u003cbr\u003e Hunger    \u003cbr\u003e A Tax Auditor for the IRS Dreams    \u003cbr\u003e At Irony’s Picnic    IV. Bournehurst-on-the-CanalLandscape with Unemployed Jockeys    \u003cbr\u003e The Bigamist    \u003cbr\u003e Everything You Own    \u003cbr\u003e Stargazers    \u003cbr\u003e Five Small Songs of America in 2076    \u003cbr\u003e Carl Yastrzemski    \u003cbr\u003e Vigilantes    \u003cbr\u003e The Man Who Invented Las Vegas    \u003cbr\u003e When Guy Lombardo Died    \u003cbr\u003e In the Blood    \u003cbr\u003e Bournehurst-on-the-Canal    V. Washington ParkNear Lacombe    \u003cbr\u003e Building    \u003cbr\u003e My Kindergarten Girlfriend    \u003cbr\u003e Pastoral    \u003cbr\u003e The Old Neighborhood    \u003cbr\u003e Potatoes    \u003cbr\u003e Toward San Francisco    \u003cbr\u003e Jungles    \u003cbr\u003e Washington Park    VI. What’s Wrong with the Moon?What’s Wrong with the Moon?     VII. Excavating the Ruins of Miami BeachReport from the Past    \u003cbr\u003e The Story    \u003cbr\u003e Excavating the Ruins of Miami Beach    \u003cbr\u003e The Meeting    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409219985751,"sku":"9781496205865","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496205865.jpg?v=1730506005","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/regular-haunts-9781496205865","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}