Bibliograph

Imperial, George Bilgere

Type

Label

Imperial, George Bilgere

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Imperial

Oclc number

863789744

Responsibility statement

George Bilgere

Series statement

Pitt poetry series

Summary

In Imperial, George Bilgere<U+2019>s sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in mid-America. In poems that range from the Cold War anxieties of the 1950s to the perils and predicaments of an aging Boomer in a post-9/11 world, Bilgere<U+2019>s rueful humor and slippery syntax become a trapdoor that at any moment can plunge the reader into the abyss. In Bilgere<U+2019>s world a yo-yo morphs into an emblem for the atomic bomb. A spot of cancer flames into the Vietnam War. And the death of a baseball player reminds us, in this age of disbelief, of the importance--the necessity--of myth

Target audience

adult

Classification