True Faith - Sadoff, Ira

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Résumé :
Ira Sadoff's ninth book shows a seasoned poet at the height of his powers: class, religion, politics with sharp wit.

Biographie:
Ira Sadoff: Ira Sadoff is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Barter, and Grazing (U. of Illinois), a novel, O. Henry prize-winning short stories, and The Ira Sadoff Reader (a collection of stories, poems, and essays about contemporary poetry). He is the recipient of a Creative Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and a Fellowship from the Guggenheim foundation.

His poems have been widely anthologized, including in the Harper Anthology of American Literature, and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Great American Prose Poems, and The Best American Poetry 2002 and 2008.

His newest critical book, History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of Culture, on the relationship between poetry and culture, was published in 2009 by the University of Iowa Press.

Former poetry editor of The Antioch Review and co-founder of The Seneca Review, he has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the MFA programs at the University of Virginia, Warren Wilson College, and currently teaches at Colby College and the MFA program at Drew University.

Sommaire:
Table of contents

I.
True Faith
In Madrid
American
Lament
Down by the Old Mill Stream
The Sound and the Fury (1991)
Oyster Bay
Apologia
My Country
Surely the Wind
Blue Catamarans
Mood Rings as Foreign Policy
Water Musik
Worry Fills the Brim of my Hat
Padlocked
Adam
In Virginia
In a Southern Climate
Dies Irae

II.
MAYBE
Orphans
Question
Objectively, in Church,
A Mighty Fortress
Diagnosis
The War
Chamber Pot
Like Magic
This Morning
Stirhouse
The Gift
Elegy

III.
America II
TRUE FAITH

Table of Contents (continued)

The Aftermath
Lapses
Before
Id
Memoir
While in Brooklyn
For Beauty
What I Meant
In my Little Paradise
Listen
Once I Could Say
Ex-Wives
Happenstance
To the Gods
The Numbness
Because We Have Failed So Often
At the Polynesian Paradise in the Mall of America
Dispel Me
Revival
Heavens