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by X. J. Kennedy

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Prize-winning poet X.J. Kennedy gathers 42 new poems rich in sound and sense, all of which display uncommon skill and an ability to treat matters both timeless and contemporary. (Poetry)

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In Dark Horses prize-winning poet X. J. Kennedy gathers forty-two new poems rich in sound and sense. All display uncommon skill and an ability to treat matters both timeless and contemporary.

From the lighhearted ballad "Dancing with the Poets at Piggy's" to the darkly meditative lyric "The Waterbury Cross," the poems show Kennedy's wide range. There are intimate portraits of a woman veterinarian and a young man dying of AIDS, a song about the Sri Lankan festival of Buddha's tooth, and a stark account of a confrontation with a homeless panhandler. "Emily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World" on the newly installed answering machine in her Amherst homestead. Finding a "Woodpile Skull" -- the severed head of a black ant -- makes the poet laugh at his own expense as he plays "ham Hamlet to a formic Yorick."

Enlivened by X. J. Kennedy's sardonic humor, wit, and insight into the human condition, the "dark horses" of this newest collection represent the finely crafted work of one of America's best-known and most widely respected poets.

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In Dark horses prize winning poet X.J. Kennedy gathers forty two new poems rich in sound and sense. All display uncommon skill and an ability to treat matters both timeless and contemporary.

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  • Title Dark Horses: New Poems
  • Author X. J. Kennedy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition F
  • Pages 88
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1992-10
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801844850 / 0801844851
  • Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.89 x 5.83 x 0.31 in (22.58 x 14.81 x 0.79 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92-10014
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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  • School Library Journal, 06/01/1993, Page 145

About the author

X. J. Kennedy has written nine collections of poetry, among them That Swing: Poems, 2008-2016, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007 and Fits of Concision: Collected Poems of Six or Fewer Lines. The coeditor, with Dana Gioia, of An Introduction to Poetry, he has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Poets' Prize, the Robert Frost Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Aiken-Taylor Award, and the Jackson Poetry Prize.

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