Nick Lantz

The End of Everything and Everything That Comes After That

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Produktbeschreibung

â Is that something I should put in a poem?â asks Nick Lantz in The End of Everything and Everything That Comes after That. Mixing sincerity with irony, lyric with vernacular, Lantzâ s collisions of style and subject are at their most vibrant in the long sequence at the centre of the collection.

Produktdetails

• Wisconsin Poetry Series
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9780299347949
• ISBN-10: 029934794X
• Artikelnr.: 69077030

Autorenporträt

Nick Lantz is the author of four previous books of poetry, including You, Beast (winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry) and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House (winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry). His poems have appeared in many journals as well as in the Best American Poetry anthology. He has won several awards, including the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lantz teaches in the MFA program at Sam Houston State University and lives in Huntsville, Texas, with his wife and cats.

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1. Ruin
2. Poem on a Photo of a Reflection of a Bowl of Plastic Fruit
3. A Bow, a Basket, a Cloud
4. Poem Not Ending with a Phone Call
5. The Rabbit
6. Poem Not Ending with a Gesture
7. After Aeschylus
8. Poem Not Ending with U.S. Border Agents Tear-Gassing Migrant Children
9. I Feel Like a Million $
10. Poem Not Ending with Francisco VÁzquez de Coronado
11. The Three Types of Knowledge
12. Poem Not Ending in a Shrug
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13. Word of the Day
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50. Postoperative
51. Poem Not Ending with the President’s Hands Upturned in an Expression of
Unfathomable Indifference
52. Poem Not Ending with Anesthesia
53. Ode to the Dead of Bowling Green
54. A Cloud Weighs over a Million Pounds
55. Poem Not Ending with My Grandfather’s Will
56. Photograph of My Wife Shaving My Head
57. Mise en Abyme
58. The Survivorship
59. “Terrific,” “Tremendous,” “Loser,” “Tough,” “Smart,” “Weak,” “Dangerous,”
“Great,” “Stupid,” “Classy,” “Big,” “Huge,” “Amazing,” “Lightweight,”
“Win,” “Bad,” “Crooked,” “Moron,” “We,” “They,” “Zero”
60. My Father, Singing
61. Poem Not Ending with a Transcript of the Final Voicemails of 9/11 Victims
62. An Urn for Ashes
63. Acknowledgments