Haywire by George Bilgere
Tenth annual winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award, Haywire is a well-polished collection from a highly accomplished poet. With humor, compassion, and an unflinching eye, Bilgere explores the human condition in accessible lines and a magician's way with language. In images bright and dark, tangible and immanent, Bilgere brings us time after time to the inner reaches of a contemporary life. In subjects ranging from adolescent agony to the loss of parents to the comic pain of middle age, he finds no reason to turn away his gaze, and ultimately no reason not to define himself in joy
Haywire was chosen for the Swenson Award by poet Edward Field, winner of numerous awards and a personal friend of the late May Swenson. Field describes the book this way. "This poet, you knew from his very first lines, didn't fall for anything phony--his own language is irresistibly no-bullshit down to earth, even sassy."
Haywire was chosen for the Swenson Award by poet Edward Field, winner of numerous awards and a personal friend of the late May Swenson. Field describes the book this way. "This poet, you knew from his very first lines, didn't fall for anything phony--his own language is irresistibly no-bullshit down to earth, even sassy."
Haywire (winner of the May Swenson Poetry Prize in 2006) and The Good Kiss, chosen by former U.S. President George W. Bush, are two of George Bilgere's most recent publications. Billy Collins, the Poet Laureate, was named the recipient of the University of Akron Poetry Award in 2001. The National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the Society of Midland Writers, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Witter Bynner Foundation have all given Bilgere grants, fellowships, and prizes. He was awarded the Pushcart Award in 2009. Bilgere is a professor at Cleveland's John Carroll University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780874216479 |
| ISBN 10 | 0874216478 |
| Title | Haywire |
| Author | George Bilgere |
| Series | Swenson Poetry Award |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Utah State University Press |
| Year published | 2006-10-20 |
| Number of pages | 76 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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