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Ballyhoo

By Hastings Hensel

Ballyhoo

By Hastings Hensel

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Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensel's Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled meditations on language's limits and its necessity, as well as on the many forms that humor takes--comedy, laughter, farce, clowning, parody, and more--Hensel navigates fine lines between joy and sadness, jokes and cruelty, reality and illusion, and irony and sincerity.Universal in scope, the 47 poems in Ballyhoo are richly idiomatic and evocative. They are also frequently grounded in the southern Atlantic coast with its particular ecology, characters, history, and myth. The pleasure in reading these poems comes from the original connections Hensel makes between the literary and the gritty: an elegy set in a bait shop, Twelfth Night's Feste delivering a monologue in a bar, a villanelle about a murder on a cruise ship.These intelligent, insightful poems remind us of the frail but important relationships between comedy, memory, and identity. Ballyhoo offers a sobering examination of the tragicomic nature of the world.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
106
Release Date:
2019-04-02
Publication Date:
2019-02-15
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
142142875X
ISBN13:
9781421428758
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
145 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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