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Intends to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life's emotional mysteries - dire and hilarious - from the perpetual dissolving of our past to the perpetnal frustration of our cravings for egotriumph, for sublime connection with an erotically idealized Other, and for peace of spirit.

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"A totally original, quintessentially American poet. Mark Halliday's work is forever in the pleasure section of my reading life. Sad very funny, thoughtful, honest lyrically and for mally adventurous, Halliday's voice is whimsical-seeming and crazy-quilt on the surface; in fact, his poems tremble and reel in the fierce abrasive currents of being alive" (Tony Hoagland)"

Thresherphobe Phoenix Poets

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 May 2013
      ISBN-13 9780226038704
      978-0226038704
      ISBN-10 022603870X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Intends to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life's emotional mysteries - dire and hilarious - from the perpetual dissolving of our past to the perpetnal frustration of our cravings for egotriumph, for sublime connection with an erotically idealized Other, and for peace of spirit.

      Trade Review
      "A totally original, quintessentially American poet. Mark Halliday's work is forever in the pleasure section of my reading life. Sad very funny, thoughtful, honest lyrically and for mally adventurous, Halliday's voice is whimsical-seeming and crazy-quilt on the surface; in fact, his poems tremble and reel in the fierce abrasive currents of being alive" (Tony Hoagland)"

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