Ballyhoo by Hastings Hensel (English) Paperback Book

Description: Ballyhoo by Hastings Hensel Ballyhoo offers a sobering examination of the tragicomic nature of the world. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A poetry collection that grapples with the tragicomic nature of language, memory, love, work, and the performative self.Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensels Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled meditations on languages limits and its necessity, as well as on the many forms that humor takes—comedy, laughter, farce, clowning, parody, and more—Hensel navigates fine lines between joy and sadness, jokes and cruelty, reality and illusion, and irony and sincerity. Universal in scope, the 47 poems in Ballyhoo are richly idiomatic and evocative. They are also frequently grounded in the southern Atlantic coast with its particular ecology, characters, history, and myth. The pleasure in reading these poems comes from the original connections Hensel makes between the literary and the gritty: an elegy set in a bait shop, Twelfth Nights Feste delivering a monologue in a bar, a villanelle about a murder on a cruise ship. These intelligent, insightful poems remind us of the frail but important relationships between comedy, memory, and identity. Ballyhoo offers a sobering examination of the tragicomic nature of the world. Author Biography Hastings Hensel teaches creative writing at Coastal Carolina University. He is the author of Winter Inlet and Control Burn. His poems have appeared in New South, The Greensboro Review, Cave Wall, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. Table of Contents Spoiler AlertTrue Story, No Joke Comedy and the Uncommon Woman That Laugh You Have, or, A Study in the Via NegativaPlaying Cards with Mark Strand Plot Summary Reality as Prank "Forgive Us Our Happiness" Recovering the Sunk Docent Freud in 1939 Mr. Hall Against Jubilance What We Need Here Is a New Dialect Noun Reading the Water Coaching the Witness Questions from the Witness Old Feste, at the Bar, Remembering On Taste Forgetting a Flood Stage Right Thinking I Wanted Country HumorAt Slack TideAfter Seeing Four Turtles on a Stump in the Waccamaw RiverFunny FarmScraping Barnacles from the HullThe Bait Shop ElegiesPumping the Trouts StomachStoryboardAt the Grave of the Fabulous MoolahThe Comedian Questions Her TimingCounterpunch LinesSea PorkMisfit, Mountain TownSad Clown in the Woods, No HoaxWanted: The Raccoon on the DockTrue Story, No JokeKnuckleheadsOde to a Boat MechanicLaughing GullWhereverHokeThe Funny PagesThrowbacksAs I Lay Dying LaughingAny Which Way You Cut ItNothing Liquid, Fragile, Hazardous, PerishableTo a Seated HarlequinAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author Promotional A poetry collection that grapples with the tragicomic nature of language, memory, love, work, and the performative self. Long Description Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensels Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled meditations on languages limits and its necessity, as well as on the many forms that humor takescomedy, laughter, farce, clowning, parody, and moreHensel navigates fine lines between joy and sadness, jokes and cruelty, reality and illusion, and irony and sincerity. Universal in scope, the 47 poems in Ballyhoo are richly idiomatic and evocative. They are also frequently grounded in the southern Atlantic coast with its particular ecology, characters, history, and myth. The pleasure in reading these poems comes from the original connections Hensel makes between the literary and the gritty: an elegy set in a bait shop, Twelfth Nights Feste delivering a monologue in a bar, a villanelle about a murder on a cruise ship. These intelligent, insightful poems remind us of the frail but important relationships between comedy, memory, and identity. Ballyhoo offers a sobering examination of the tragicomic nature of the world. Review Quote "In his thoughtful examinations of plotline, script, the imperatives of fiction, and the architecture of jokes, Hastings Hensel artfully constructs intriguing possibilities in these masterful poems, whose sonic textures are breathtakingly beautiful and whose emotional power is palpable. These skillful and formally accomplished poems invoke the beauties of nature and language alike and celebrate, in the end, the joy, the comedy of snags, and, yes, the humanity that is everywhere present and available to us if we take the time to look."?Sidney Wade, author of Straits & Narrows "Hastings Hensels quickfire mind shines through the wise and wily poems of Ballyhoo . Hensel is a poet attuned to the twists and strains of English, and here he gives us new sounds / for the things weve missed. Humor may be his central subject, but he is less interested in comedy than the forces driving it. He writes brilliantly about those moments when a joke goes sour or reveals its darker heart, but he knows, too, what laughter makes possible: forgiveness, / which is release. This book is a knockout, and one I will read over and over."?Caki Wilkinson, author of The Wynona Stone Poems "Reading Hastings Hensels Ballyhoo is like uncoiling a hank of yarn. Some threads connect backwards to his first, award-winning poetry collection, Winter Inlet ?fraught family, coastal terrain, layered language, rural culture?but there is something new here asserting a strong poetic gravity. Call it topos, logos, mythos, maybe? Something deep as the minds mysteriousness? I will return to these finely spun poems many times."?John Lane, author of Anthropocene Blues "In Ballyhoo , Hastings Hensel searches for humor and supplies wit like only the most skillful poets do, in the misery and despair we sometimes find in our everyday lives, in the uncomfortable passivity and vapidity of a world too often humorless, which if approached with Hensels Feste-like knuckle-knock and lilt can express Hallelujah and Ballyhoo not as occupying mere phonetic kinships but as a rip into dire truth. Ballyhoo is one of the most underhandedly insightful collections I have ever read. Hastings is a coney-catcher, and we are his marks who dont realize after we have left the poems how we have been stripped bare, had our weaknesses exposed."?Adam Vines, author of Out of Speech Promotional "Headline" A poetry collection that grapples with the tragicomic nature of language, memory, love, work, and the performative self. Details ISBN142142875X Author Hastings Hensel Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 142142875X ISBN-13 9781421428758 Pages 104 Audience Age 18 Format Paperback Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States DEWEY 811.6 Illustrations No Birth 1983 Affiliation Coastal Carolina University Position Senior Lecturer Language English NZ Release Date 2019-05-28 US Release Date 2019-05-28 Publication Date 2019-05-28 UK Release Date 2019-05-28 Series Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction Alternative 9781421428765 Audience General AU Release Date 2019-04-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161820263;

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