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- Tomorrow's Living Room
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Utah State University Press
- Series: Swenson Poetry Award
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Volume 13 in the Swenson Award Series, Tomorrow's Living Room offers a pleasantly disorienting verbal territory. The collection is alternately wry and dark, hopeful and bleak, full of unexpected light and laugh-out-loud incongruities. We begin to see that the shape and the furniture of Jason Whitmarsh's world reflect our own (they may in fact be universal), but we're considering them through completely new terms of engagement.
Selected by, and with a foreword by, Billy Collins.
The annual Swenson competition, named for May Swenson, honors her as one of America’s most provocative and vital writers. In John Hollander’s words, she was "one of our few unquestionably major poets."
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- pp. i-iii
- Copyright Page
- p. vi
- Dedication Page
- p. v
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Acknowledgment
- pp. x-xi
- Anniversary
- p. 4
- Anniversary
- p. 4
- Two Parts Water
- p. 8
- Two, Couchbound
- p. 10
- Two Parts Water
- p. 8
- After Archilochos
- p. 11
- The Ever Inconstancy
- p. 9
- Two, Couchbound
- p. 10
- Missing IOU
- p. 13
- After Archilochos
- p. 11
- Japanese Watermelon
- p. 15
- Missing Iou
- p. 13
- Administration
- p. 16
- Japanese Watermelon
- p. 15
- Fasted and Loosed
- p. 18
- Administration
- p. 16
- Anniversary
- p. 20
- Fasted and Loosed
- p. 18
- Anniversary
- p. 20
- There’s an Old Man
- p. 26
- Not a Demon
- p. 27
- There but for the Grace
- p. 25
- And Quartered
- p. 28
- Thereâs An Old Man
- p. 26
- Anniversary
- p. 29
- Not A Demon
- p. 27
- And Quartered
- p. 28
- Anniversary
- p. 29
- On the Take
- p. 34
- Anniversary
- p. 35
- On The Take
- p. 34
- Anniversary
- p. 35
- Self-Portrait
- p. 41
- Anniversary
- p. 42
- Self-Portrait
- p. 41
- Anniversary
- p. 42
- Anniversary
- p. 45
- Why Poetry? Because
- p. 46
- Anniversary
- p. 45
- Three Curses
- p. 48
- Why Poetry? Because
- p. 46
- Anniversary
- p. 49
- Three Curses
- p. 48
- Anniversary
- p. 49
- We’re a Rerun
- p. 53
- I Thought That
- p. 54
- Weâre A Rerun
- p. 53
- Anniversary
- p. 56
- I Thought That
- p. 54
- Having At It
- p. 58
- Anniversary
- p. 56
- Finnish Rabbit
- p. 60
- Having At It
- p. 58
- Anniversary
- p. 61
- Disappearing Act
- p. 62
- Finnish Rabbit
- p. 60
- About the Author
- p. 63
- Anniversary
- p. 61
- Disappearing Act
- p. 62
- About The Author
- p. 63
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