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Hightower's poems range in style and subject, with soliloquies, laments, eccentric ponderings, and contemplations of appetite and art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eDoor to the Terrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou withdraw from me like a match\u003cbr\u003e From a final cigarette and dance every\u003cbr\u003e Abandonment. The strains of music\u003cbr\u003e That accompany you float away with you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book's epigraph evokes a Faustian contract, which is echoed in the tensions between urban and rural, light and dark, moral and amoral action. Hightower's influences--Sappho, Virgil, Blake, and Wilde--make their presence known as he reflects upon life in urban America after growing up in rural Texas, about coming of age as a gay man, about art and artists, poetry and painting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eSpending the Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow, in another part of the country,\u003cbr\u003e I hear it called \"staying over.\"\u003cbr\u003e Back then, a couple of years\u003cbr\u003e was a gaping difference.\u003cbr\u003e The ornately carved door\u003cbr\u003e covering the strings of an upright\u003cbr\u003e melded into the headboard\u003cbr\u003e of the bed . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart of the Bargain\u003c\/i\u003e also explores the imperceptible reconciliations that one makes as an individual, a part of a community, and as a conscientious heir to a culture. Valences of sexuality, nationality, literality all swirl together and perform a balancing act as the poet aspires to pull back the curtain of \"the ineffable pageantry\" of our multilayered lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott Hightower\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two books of poems, \u003ci\u003eTin Can Tourist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNatural Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e. His writings have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eSalmagundi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Fordham University and New York University and is a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Hightower also reminds us that the practice of writing is at the core of democracy: poetry seeks a foundation in the truth of the individual, guaranteed and restored through the integrity of language.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53014076915985,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53014077702417,"sku":"NIN9780823222858","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780823222858.jpg?v=1768143177"},{"product_id":"tin-can-tourist-book-scott-hightower-9780823221516","title":"Tin Can Tourist","description":"A world of history is a world of destinations and possibilities. In Tin Can Tourist Scott Hightower draws from a legacy larger than the limits of personal history, body, and brand. From the harsh Protestant landscape of his native central Texas to the pageantry of the historical architecture of St. Maria in Trastevere, Rome, he persues the limit of the poet. Where exactly does one begin and the world start? Hightower reflects a world containing AIDS and cancer, Caravaggio and van der Werff. Nature, interpersonal relationships, and the culture of the world-from simple to extraordinary-are all fair game. His partaking, erotic self, in search of its own truest and most urgent expressions, takes seriously Blake's warning of error that could reduce the human heart to a dull cog of a machine (Blake's exact words are a mill with complicated wheels.) The breadth and mastery of this awaited debut volume is matched by the poet's insistence on the healing and transforming power of the human imagination. These are not notes from an artless heart-but observations from a simmering world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53014079308049,"sku":"NIN9780823221516","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780823221516.jpg?v=1768143182"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/collections\/autor-buecher-von-scott-hightower.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}