Losers Dream on - 9780226533599
  • Losers Dream on - 9780226533599

Losers Dream on - 9780226533599

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We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces-time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion-win victories over us each day. We all know this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained-in family life, in romance, in work, in citizenship. What obsesses Halliday in Losers Dream On is how to recognize reality without relinquishing the pleasure and creativity and courage of our dreaming. Halliday's poetry exploits the vast array of dictions, idioms, rhetorical maneuvers, and tones available to real-life speakers (including speakers talking to themselves). Often Halliday gives a poem to a speaker who is distressed, angry, confused, defensive, self-excusing, or driven by yearning, so that the poem may dramatize the speaker's state of mind while also implying the poet's ironic perspective on the speaker. Meanwhile, a few other poems (for instance A Gender Theory and Thin White Shirts and First Wife and You Lament ) try to push beyond irony into earnestness and wholehearted declaration. The tension between irony and belief is the engine of Halliday's poetry.
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Topic
Poetry
Author
Mark Halliday
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Publisher
T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year
2018

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ISBN
9780226533599
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