Tough luck
Subtitle: poems
By: Todd Boss
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780393608625
Subjects: Families; American poetry; Idioms; Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Minneapolis, Minn., 2007; Bridge failures; Poetry; English language
Work titles: Poems
Description: At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-stopping view of the muscled waters below. Marriage, family, home all come crashing down, but Todd Boss rebuilds with his trademark musicality and "a reverent gusto for representing the tactile aspects of human life" (Tony Hoagland).From "In the End a Gardener":is what we want in our corner of paradise. Someone alert to the slant of one hour of afternoon sunlight or other,who knows what to plant there,knows what will thrive.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 100).
Table of contents: title: When my mother says Tough luck --; title: Accounting --; title: Line-dried laundry --; title: When my father says Toughen up --; title: For an old runner --; title: When we say Knuckle down --; title: Antiques --; title: Grinding pepper --; title: A little hard won't kill ya --; title: Restraint --; title: All the dropped --; title: When you say You suck --; title: Liquor store --; title: Congratulations --; title: My double --; title: Rocket --; title: They mate for life --; title: When I said I quit --; title: Folds --; title: Bravery --; title: An earthquake leaves a building --; title: Fragments for the 35W Bridge --; title: A blessing --; title: Visitation on the eve of Thanksgiving --; title: Eve --; title: When you teach the East or West Coast Swing --; title: Soon I wake among new hills --; title: How naturally --; title: I'd like to go through all your rooms --; title: Grinding coffee --; title: Ammo and explosives --; title: When my glasses went lost in Clearwater --; title: I find it lovely that we name our boats --; title: A hoard of driftwood --; title: Petoskey Stone --; title: Wild again --; title: In the end a gardener --; title: A bouquet --; title: One of the joys of dry fly-fishing.