Catastrophic Bliss

Catastrophic Bliss

Authors

Myronn Hardy

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Document Type

Book

Publication Date

12-2012

ISBN

978-1-61148-493-9

Abstract

Catastrophic Bliss contemplates the longing to understand connections and disconnections within a world ever more fragmented yet interdependent. With allusions to Dante, Stevie Wonder, Fernando Pessoa, Persephone and Marianne Moore, these poems move from the tumultuous to the sublime: a pit bull killing an invading thief, two people on a New York City subway playing chess, Billy Eckstine recording in Rio de Janeiro, to an imagined Barack Obama writing poems to his father. Myronn Hardy's third collection comprises war, place, love, and history all yearning to be reconciled.

Publisher

Bucknell University Press

City

Lewisburg, PA

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