Description: Further DetailsTitle: BallyhooCondition: NewEAN: 9781421428758ISBN: 9781421428758Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/28/2019Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 8mmItem Weight: 136gAuthor: Hastings HenselLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 142142875XDescription: 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 Hensel's Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled meditations on language's 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 Night's 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and FictionGenre: Poetry & DramaRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Ballyhoo
Title: Ballyhoo
EAN: 9781421428758
ISBN: 9781421428758
Release Date: 05/28/2019
Release Year: 2019
ISBN-10: 142142875X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
Book Title: Ballyhoo
Number of Pages: 104 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Topic: Women Authors, General
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.3 in
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 4.8 Oz
Author: Hastings Hensel
Item Length: 8.5 in
Book Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
