Catastrophic Bliss
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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
Recommended Citation
Hardy, Myronn, "Catastrophic Bliss" (2012). The Griot Book Project. 7.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/griot-books/7