Paradise, Indiana / Bruce Snider.
Snider, Bruce.
2012
PS3619.N53 P37 2012
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Title Paradise, Indiana / Bruce Snider.
Author Snider, Bruce.
ISBN 9780807145517 (pbk.)
0807145513 (pbk.)
Imprint Warrensburg, Mo. : Pleiades Press : Distributed by Louisiana State University Press, ©2012.
Language English
Description 64 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number PS3619.N53 P37 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6 Sn32p
Summary A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home to die. At the center of it all, a teenage boy's suicide resonates through the lives of those closest to him. The poems in Bruce Snider's Paradise, Indiana describe a place where mundane events neighbor the most harrowing. Shaped by the author's experiences growing up in rural Indiana, Snider investigates the landscapes traditionally claimed by male poets such as James Wright, James Dickey, and Richard Hugo, whose visions of place rarely, if ever, included the presence of gays and lesbians. Paradise, Indiana envisions a seldom recorded rural America, one where everything exists side by side: the county fair and an abandoned small town gay bar, farmers and cross-dressers, death and hope, beauty and despair.
Note Poems.
Series Lena-Miles Wever Todd poetry series.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Map
Epitaph
At these speeds
Afterlife
At the Midwest Taxidermy Convention
Romance
Late harvest
Planetary
Chemistry
Indiana history
Afterlife
My grandmother shoplifting at the Pick 'n Save
Tornado season
A great whirring
The drag queen dies in New Castle
Parts
Morning after the monster truck and thrill show
At Floyd's Tuxedo Shop
Omit the mouth that answers
Afterlife
To the Midwest wind
Closing the gay bar outside Gas City
Forecast
Lantern light, Big Cedar
Afterlife
Paradise, Indiana
The death of the Avon lady
Heat lightning over Tunker
The girlfriend
Fortress
Credo
To Interstate 70
On the road to Goshen
Afterlife
Vows
The ambiguity of stone
Cruising the rest stop on Route 9
The afterlife of road kill
The smoke
Indiana history
Afterlife
Someone knocks on a door in the state where I was born
Lure
Gutting the white-tail.

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