‘Singular and deeply pleasurable. Christopher Kennedy’s prosetry is a lonely anarchic nation-state unto itself, half vacation funspot, half eerie purgatorial layover.’—Dave Eggers
The poems in Ennui Prophet, Christopher Kennedy’s fourth collection, range from deeply personal explorations of relationships with family and friends, to examinations of the political climate in the first decade of the millennium. Whether personal or public, Kennedy gazes through a slightly distorted lens to better see the world around us.
Christopher Kennedy ‘s previous book, Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions Ltd., 2007) received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. He directs Syracuse University’s MFA program in creative writing.
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Table of Contents
I.
Searching for Ancestors 2
No Wonder 3
The Fact Remains 4
Dream Horse 5
Congruence 6
Ennui Prophet 7
Transubstantiation 8
Grief Season 9
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons 10
My Mother Listens for Birds 11
Hypoglycemia 12
Orange Sunshine 13
In the White Hour 14
Amish Radio 15
II.
The Rise and Fall of the Middle Class 17
Church of the Holy Abattoir 18
Act V 19
“Wicked Go the Doors” 20
The Year I Was Sick 21
Questions of Metaphysics 22
After Christmas 23
“Are You Looking for the Self Help Section?” 24
Museum of Wrong Turns 25
The Brown Heroin of Love 26
The Day Before My Violin Broke 27
Aloha 28
End of the Ten-Foot Summer 29
Mute Gods in Translation 30
Song of the Elysian Troubadour 31
Here Arrive the Beautiful Women 32
Why 33
Salt City Solo 34
III
Down to the Sea in Sinking Ships 36
“Astronauts Give Up” 37
Stopped by Cops in South Carolina Where the Billboards Shift from Jesus
to Porn and Back Again, I Understand My Affliction 38
One More Roll 39
They Are World Travelers 40
Memo about the Pig Study 41
Still Some Interest in the Heathen Gods 42
Humor Is the Arbiter of Sadness 43
Rasputin’s Folly 44
My Argument with the World, Part 3 45
“Need Some Eyes for Your Next Puppet?” 46
Where Does the Carpathian Highway Roam? 47
For My Students 48
Tombstone Hand 49
The Tyranny of Victory 50
A Vague Memory of Wings 51
The Unimaginable World 52
Rara Avis 53
Mandala 54
Waking Up at the Wheel
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Christopher Kennedy is the author of three poetry collections,
Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions, Ltd.), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award in 2007;
Trouble with the Machine (Low Fidelity Press); and
Nietzsche’s Horse (Mitki/Mitki Press). His work has appeared in many print and on-line journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, New York Tyrant, Ninth Letter, The Threepenny Review, Slope, Mississippi Review, and Mc Sweeney’s. He is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
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