The Romance of Happy Workers swaggers through a world of cowboys,
conquistadors, comrades, and housewives with mock-Russian lyric
sequences and Keatsian swoon. Political and iconoclastic, Anne
Boyer’s poems dally in pastoral camp and a dizzying, delightful
array of sights and sounds born from the dust of the Kansas plains
where dinner for two is cooked in Fire King and served on
depression ware, and where bawdy instructions for a modern “Home
on the Range” read: Mix a drink of stock lot: vermouth and the
water table. And the bar will smell of IBP. And you will lick my
Laura Ingalls. In Boyer’s heartland, “Surfaces should be worn.
Lamps should smolder. / Dahlias do bloom like tumors. The birds do
rise like bombs.” And the once bright and now crumbling populism
of Marxists, poets, and folksingers springs vividly back to life as
realism, idealism, and nostalgia do battle amongst the silos and
ditchweed. Nothing, too, is a subject: dusk regulating the
blankery. Fill in the nightish sky with ardent, fill in the
metaphorical smell. A poet and visual artist, Anne Boyer lives in
Kansas, where she co-edits the poetry journal Abraham Lincoln and
teaches at Kansas City Art Institute.
General
| Imprint: |
Coffee House Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2008 |
| Firstpublished: |
April 2008 |
| Authors: |
Anne Boyer
|
| Dimensions: |
228 x 154 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
90 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-56689-214-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-56689-214-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781566892148 |
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