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Instead I've allowed the sun already to start pouring through the curtains the diminishments and inferiorities of a crude and unsentimental next day. To keep that train from leaving the station must call for some incredible level of concentration. In his sixth collection, Mark Halliday continues to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life's emotional mysteries - both dire and hilarious - from the perpetual dissolving of our past to the perpetnal frustration of our cravings for ego triumph, for sublime connection with an erotically idealized Other, and for peace of spirit. Animated by belief in the possible truths to be reached in interpersonal speech, Halliday's voice-driven poetry wants to find insight - or at least a stay against confusion - through personality without being trapped in personality. History will leave much of what we are on the threshing floor, Halliday notes, but in the meantime we do what we can: let posterity (if any) say we rambled truly.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49527563026705,"sku":"GOR013374264","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50214221840657,"sku":"CIN022603870XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022603870X.jpg?v=1751425646"},{"product_id":"selfwolf-book-mark-halliday-9780226313849","title":"Selfwolf","description":"In his third book of poems, Mark Halliday grapples with the endless struggle between self-concern and awareness of the rights of others. 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In this, his fifth book of poems, written in the aftermath of his father's death, Mark Halliday proves to be one of America's most intimate poets. Like Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch, Halliday's poems chat with the reader in earnest yet humorous ways and in wholly believable voices. Whether exploring grief or desire or loneliness, these poems never forget the human longing for permanence. He is prolix and quotidian, a Whitman in a supermarket, a confessional poet who does not take himself very seriously. His cool patter skewers pomposity.--The New Yorker. Mark Halliday was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1949, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and then in Westport, Connecticut. He earned a B.A. at Brown University, an M.A. in creative writing at Brown, and a Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University. He has taught at Wellesley College, the University of Pennsylvania, Wilmington Friends School, Indiana University, Western Michigan University, and Ohio University.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49995656200465,"sku":"CIN1932195726G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1932195726.jpg?v=1750867751"},{"product_id":"losers-dream-on-book-mark-halliday-9780226533599","title":"Losers Dream on","description":"We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces--time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion--win victories over us each day. We all \"know\" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained--in family life, in romance, in work, in citizenship. What obsesses Halliday in Losers Dream On is how to recognize reality without relinquishing the pleasure and creativity and courage of our dreaming. Halliday's poetry exploits the vast array of dictions, idioms, rhetorical maneuvers, and tones available to real-life speakers (including speakers talking to themselves). Often Halliday gives a poem to a speaker who is distressed, angry, confused, defensive, self-excusing, or driven by yearning, so that the poem may dramatize the speaker's state of mind while also implying the poet's ironic perspective on the speaker. Meanwhile, a few other poems (for instance \"A Gender Theory\" and \"Thin White Shirts\" and \"First Wife\" and \"You Lament\") try to push beyond irony into earnestness and wholehearted declaration. 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After this \"Jab\", the world will never be the same. Or at least, a few hundred conversations, here and there, will be somewhat affected. Roll over Death, and tell Mutabilitie the news.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50215550976273,"sku":"CIN0226313867G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51023700001041,"sku":"CIN0226313867VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53471057051921,"sku":"CIN0226313867A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226313867.jpg?v=1750812613"},{"product_id":"jab-book-mark-halliday-9780226313856","title":"Jab","description":"Human, hunger, happiness, hope, heart and Halliday all start with \"h\", as does ham. Accident? Maybe! 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