Books : Ecstatic in the Poison
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by: Andrew Hudgins
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781585674299
ISBN: 158567429X
Label: Overlook Hardcover
Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 204
Publication Date: August 15, 2003
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Sales Rank: 559902
Studio: Overlook Hardcover
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In his sixth book of poetry, Ecstatic in the Poison, National Book Award finalist Andrew Hudgins offers a host of delights. Long known as a composer of innovative, clear-sighted narratives and hard-driving, truth-telling lyrics, Hudgins now digs deep into the biographical and autobiographical, the lyric and dramatic, the comic and elegiac. Drawing on events of childhood and of later years, as well as the real and imagined lives of others, Hudgins brings to life a rich, comedic, and haunting variety of characters: among them a prankster who disassembles a Cadillac and rebuilds it in his attic, Russian soldiers on the verge of execution, frenzied inhabitants of Sodom, along with middle-class husbands, wives, and children. Cameo appearances by Alexander the Great and his horse Bucephalus, God strolling in the Garden of Eden, and Josef Stalin lead the reader through the epochs. In Hudgins's adroit hands, a lake, and even a joke become personified.
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Rating: - New York Times Book Review, 12/28/03
There is a subversive streak to Andrew Hudgins's orderly, accessible poetry that sets him apart from his more transcendent peers: he consistently undercuts himself. Metaphysically and otherwise, he is forever seeing his life clearly and spilling a Coke on his lap at the same time. Most of this collection balances between irony and awe and seems always about to tip either way. The marvelous opening poem, in which the speaker recalls playing as a child in the ''temporary heaven'' of DDT spray, could ... Read More
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