Imperial by George Bilgere

Imperial

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Imperial by George Bilgere

University of Pittsburgh Press

Imperial

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In Imperial, George Bilgere'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's rueful humor and slippery syntax become a trapdoor that at any moment can plunge the reader into the abyss. In Bilgere'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.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
9780822962687
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
72
Authors:
George Bilgere
Published Date:
2014-01-21
Language:
English
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About George Bilgere

The Pitt Poetry Series has carried three of George Bilgere's books. They are Imperial in 2014, Blood Pages in 2018 and Central Air in 2022, but the prizes came earlier. The Going won the Society of Midland Authors poetry award in 1995; Billy Collins selected The Good Kiss for the University of Akron Poetry Prize; Haywire was the tenth volume in Utah State University Press's May Swenson Poetry Award series in 2006; and the chapbook Cheap Motels of My Youth won the 2023 Rattle Chapbook Prize. Born in Riverside, California, he holds degrees from the University of California, Riverside, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Denver, and taught for many years at John Carroll University in Cleveland.

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