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03098aam a2200325 i 4500 001 BE69B67EA39211ED924352D529ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230203011453 008 210513s2022 lau 000 p eng 010 $a 2021022712 020 $a 080717405X 020 $a 9780807174050 035 $a (OCoLC)1251740641 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d XII $d UKMGB $d NYP $d OCLCO $d EAU $d LUU $d YDX $d IVU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3608 O27 L37 2022 100 1 $a Hoch, James, $d 1967- $e author. 245 10 $a Last pawn shop in New Jersey : $b poems / $c James Hoch. 264 1 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a viii, 68 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "James Hoch's new poetry collection, Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey, contemplates how it is possible to live in a time of peril and to love someone who inflicts great damage. Navigating emotional experiences that followed his brother's going to war in Afghanistan, Hoch confronts questions about masculinity he encountered while raising his two sons and dealing with the death of his mother from ovarian cancer. Compounding and complicating narratives of history and conquest, apocalypse and erasure, identity and empire, Hoch's poetry investigates the difficulty of loving and of making beauty in times of crisis when faced with knowledge and experience of its limitations and necessity. These themes generate from the interstices of public and personal history, often evoking landscapes with views of the New York water supply system, industrialization along the Hudson River, and the geology of the Palouse, an area of the Pacific Northwest. By turns lyrical and meditative, Hoch's poems accumulate into a bare-knuckled argument for the sublime in the context of war and environmental degradation. Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey asserts the redemptive power of art as survival"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $t The Listening. $g III -- $t Dedication -- $t Afghanistan -- $t Disgrace and Oblivion in Ancient Rome -- $t Recess -- $t Gainer -- $t Pine Barrens -- $t Self-Portrait as Last Pawn Shop in New Jersey -- $t Poem at the End of a Pier -- $g II -- $t This Drink Tastes Like History -- $t Landscape Resembling My Mother Dying -- $t Elegy with a Landscape of Iceland by Georg Guðni -- $t Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird -- $t Palouse -- $t Puberty with Self-Portrait as Tiffky Doofky -- $t Halo -- $t Sunflowers -- $g III -- $t Global Studies -- $t Lithium Bath -- $t Advice to a Son as Garden Statuary -- $t Polycardial -- $t The Ask -- $t Leaving Well Enough Alone -- $t Parking Garage -- $t Primitivo Negativo -- $t Small Orange -- $t The Listening. 650 0 $a Masculinity $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Mothers $x Death $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001-2021 $v Poetry. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hoch, James. $t Last pawn shop in new jersey $d Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2022 $z 9780807177006 $w (DLC) 2021022713 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302014814.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BE69B67EA39211ED924352D529ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search