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    Children with Enemies
    Children with Enemies
    Children with Enemies
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    Children with Enemies

    By Stuart Dischell

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    There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell’s fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Part elegist, part fabulist, part absurdist, Dischell writes at the edges of imagination, memory, and experience. By turns outwardly social and inwardly reflective, comic and remorseful, the beautifully crafted poems of Children with Enemies transfigure dread with a reluctant wisdom and come alive to the confusions and implications of what it means to be human.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateSep 21, 2017
    ISBN9780226498621
    Children with Enemies
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    Stuart Dischell

    Stuart Dischell's work has appeared in many publications, including The New Republic, Partisan Review, and Ploughshares. He has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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      Children with Enemies - Stuart Dischell

      Children with Enemies

      Children with Enemies

      Stuart Dischell

      The University of Chicago Press

      Chicago & London

      The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

      The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

      © 2017 by The University of Chicago

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.

      Published 2017

      Printed in the United States of America

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      ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49859-1 (paper)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49862-1 (e-book)

      DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226498621.001.0001

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Dischell, Stuart, author.

      Title: Children with enemies / Stuart Dischell.

      Other titles: Phoenix poets.

      Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. | Series: Phoenix poets

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016059827 | ISBN 9780226498591 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226498621 (e-book)

      Classification: LCC PS3554.I827 C48 2017 | DDC 811/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016059827

      This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

      For Tara

      Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.

      Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Harmless Poem

      Because You Have Seen It So

      A Different Kind of Person

      The Wharves

      The Passages

      Fragment

      Song of the Compatriots

      When a Child Asks about Angels

      Things Are Changing for Johanna

      The Sun on Falling Waters Writes the Text

      In the Sequences of Traffic

      Nothing about Dogs

      The Mysteries of Aurora

      Casualty Event

      Memorial Day, Greensboro

      Ring of Keys

      A Visit to a Strange Land

      His Name Means Handsome

      Proclamation

      The Best for Me

      Why Poseidon Chose My Grandfather

      Others Made It Back Over the Pyrenees

      I Was Busy

      My Uncle’s Sketchbook from the Cold War

      Little Narcissus

      A Message from the Herd

      Another Picture of the Future

      The Squash Man

      Couplet on an Ancient Visage

      Standing on Z

      On the Day after My Birthday

      My Famous Broken Heart

      Beneath the Blast

      Questions for the Mariner

      Attic and Basement

      Okay to Others

      Future Girl

      Without Sunglasses

      What Begins in Eros Ends in Elegy

      Evening in the Window (Parts I–IV)

      Song of the Drunken Captain

      If

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