Presents a new, wide-ranging selection of contemporary but structured American verse by almost two hundred poets

Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms

Literature & Fiction

Dacey, Philip

Poetry

Harpercollins

Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry In Traditional Form

Jauss, David

History & Criticism

Pearson

The Boy under the Bed (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

This second collection by award-winning poet Philip Dacey runs the gamut from existential mysteries to domestic dramas. Dacey writes in both traditional and free verse forms, and organizes these selections into four sections whose focus gradually shifts from the inexplicable phenomena of "apple-doors" to the cultural otherworldliness of a foreign country, in "Spanish artifacts". The third section, "nipples rise to spirit", traces a child's growth to middle age, with particular reference to sex and family, while "the presence of Presence" redefines the religious experience.

Reference

Johns Hopkins University Press

Night Shift at the Crucifix Factory: Poems (Edwin Ford Piper Poetry Award)

Univ of Iowa Pr

Once described by Dave Smith as a one-man symphony, Dacey here ranges widely in tones, strategies, and forms, a diversity appropriate for one who characteristically mediates on American identity. In these poems, Dacey winds together many strands--our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality--and frames them in a narrative as comic as it is plangent.

The Deathbed Playboy

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

These poems wind together all the strands of American identity -- our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality -- and frame them in a narrative as comic as it is plaintive. Surprises in the book include cameo appearances by George Bush Florence Nightingale, as well as a take J. S. Bach that owes something to the Keystone Cops.

The Deathbed Playboy: Poems

Univ of Washington Pr

How I Escaped from the Labyrinth and Other Poems

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd)

Poetry. "Reading Philip Dacey's poems is like having a conversation with a funny, sophisticated, and insightful friend. You're laughing, you're nodding in appreciation, you're saying, 'A-ha. I never saw things that way, but wow—you're right.' And you don't want to say goodbye anytime soon. Like the best literature, Dacey's poems teach us—or remind us—what it means to be human. They speak of our capacity for reverence ('Guest of Honor') as well as our ability to wound ('Neighborly'); they address our ability to conjure beauty via art, performance, and music ('Nijinsky: A Sestina,' among others) and our power to destroy ('At the Hiroshima Photo Exhibit'); they evoke our ingenuity (all of Dacey's poems themselves as well as some of their subjects) and, simultaneously, as in 'The Hike (Altea, Spain),' our frailty and our resilience."—Mark Brazaitis

Church of the Adagio

Rain Mountain Press

The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins by Philip Dacey is a remarkable sequence about the nineteenth-century painter. Dacey constructs both a fascinating narrative of Eakins’ world and a searching meditation on the relationships between art and life, between teachers and students, and the quest to live a fully-engaged existence.

The Mystery Of Max Schmitt: Poems On The Life And Work Of Thomas Eakins

WordTech Communications LLC

Poetry. Philip Dacey published many books of poetry in his lifetime. This posthumous collection of poems is his gift to poets and poetry readers, to his many friends and admirers. How fitting that the title of this book alludes to an act by the poet Walt Whitman, a small act of kindness fronting the large inevitabilities of fate.

The Ice-Cream Vigils: Last Poems

Red Dragonfly Press

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