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Jab

  • Mark Halliday
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2002
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Human, hunger, happiness, hope, heart, and Halliday all start with h, as does ham. Accident? Maybe! But seldom have the flour of the humanistic and the egg yolk of honesty mixed more swellingly with the yeast of desire and the salt of self-doubt—not to mention the olive paste of ambition.

Halliday has whacked Death and Mutabilitie before, but this time . . . this time he whacks them again. After this Jab, the world will never be the same. Or at least, a few hundred conversations, here and there, will be somewhat affected. Roll over Death, and tell Mutabilitie the news.

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Mark Halliday teaches in the creative writing program at Ohio University. He is the author of three books of poems, Little Star, Tasker Street, and Selfwolf, the last published by the University of Chicago Press. He received the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    Time In a Brown House

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    The Pink Car

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    Thirteenth Round

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    Summer 1935

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    The Man Who Is Not at the Table

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    Olivier Bergmann

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    Poetry Failure

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    The Sunny Ridge

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    Head Wound

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    Scale

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    Summer Planning

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    Strawberry Milkshake

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    Contents

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    Cotton Club Classics

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    Nights at Ruby's

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    Against Realism

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    Lunch with Big Steve

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    Trumpet Player, I963

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    The Beloved

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    Not Us

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    The Schuylkill

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    A Good Thing

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    18,000 CDs

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    Campaign Promise

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    Shnordink's Butterfly

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    Big Picture

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    New Thing

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    Separated Father

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    Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts

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    Heavy Trash

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    The Fedge

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    Parkersburg

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    The Issue Here

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    Seven Baskets

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    Seven Boxes

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    Schnetzer Day

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    You and Yours

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    Dennis Pravy Speaks

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    Sourdough

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    Landscape #11

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    Nebraska Novel

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    Bookstore Dazzle

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    The Opaque

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    Route 302

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    Why Must We Write?

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    The Missing Poem

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April 15, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780226313900
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104
https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226313900
eBook ISBN: 9780226313900
Keywords for this book
poetry; literature; creative writing; collection; contemporary; human nature; hunger; happiness; desire; ambition; passion; success; overcoming; hope; self doubt; confidence; dreams; belief; death; time; loss; immortality; future; divorce; family; landscape; summer; seasons; life changes; river; nebraska; midwest; environment; memories; americana
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