All You Ask For is Longing: New and Selected Poems
- ISBN-10
- 1938160312
- ISBN-13
- 9781938160318
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04-21
- Publisher
- BOA Editions, Ltd.
- Author
- Sean Thomas Dougherty
Description
For over twenty years Sean Thomas Dougherty has negotiated between modernist and avant-garde writing and more populist traditions that extend back to Walt Whitman. His subject matter ranges from basketball to Bjork, from blue collar workers to Biggie Smalls, from Luciano Pavarotti to women waiting at a diner outside a prison in Upstate New York. Selecting from the best of eight previous collections, this New and Selected reveals the powerful arc and development of Dougherty's writing and establishes him as a voice of dissent for the future. A former Fulbright fellow, Sean Thomas Dougherty works at Gold Crown Billiards in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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