Imperial

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Imperial by George Bilgere, University of Pittsburgh Press
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Author: George Bilgere ISBN: 9780822979623
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Publication: January 21, 2014
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Language: English
Author: George Bilgere
ISBN: 9780822979623
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication: January 21, 2014
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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