false 1959314 1 <p>If "America" is a nation of enthusiasts (for good or ill), the poems in this book can be thought of as their anthems. The adventurer, the speculator, the minister, the naturalist, the bandit, the mother-all have some purchase here. Starting from the notion of the ode as "a poem sung by a chorus," these poems campaign for a heroic "voice of history" spoken by individuals. The resulting tensions, between prose and poetic lines, between narrative and song, are revealed in the anxiety of genre: the ode turns into epic; the song turns into jeremiad; the master narrative is cut short by the hired hand going about her business. Throughout, regular people get to act in their own epic situations as global events lumber in the background.</p> <p>Born in New York, <b>Jean Day</b> grew up in Rhode Island and moved west in the 1970s to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has been active in the literary community ever since. She is the author of five previous books of poetry, most recently <i>The Literal World</i>, and her work appears in many journals and anthologies, including <i>Best Poems of 2004</i>, edited by David Lehman and Lyn Hejinian. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the California Arts Council, and the Fund for Poetry.</p> 1962339 1 4 2006 Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium (Adventures in Poetry) total:11|5:8|4:3| 11 52 21 2 5 0 false false Wed May 14 16:59:17 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 16:59:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 27 06:00:28 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 06:00:34 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Wed Oct 07 14:03:39 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 14:03:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 29 10:07:35 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 10:07:39 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Dec 31 07:55:48 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 07:55:48 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Oct 10 17:27:39 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 17:27:39 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Aug 29 19:40:05 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 19:40:05 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jul 10 20:37:10 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 20:37:16 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu May 29 10:46:45 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 10:46:45 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu May 15 07:23:11 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 07:23:11 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Apr 23 12:57:50 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 12:57:50 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Apr 02 09:51:38 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 09:51:43 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 08:01:12 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 08:01:12 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Feb 29 18:45:19 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 18:45:19 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Feb 27 08:08:53 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 08:09:00 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Feb 24 18:12:28 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 18:12:34 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jan 24 15:58:51 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 15:51:51 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 15:51:56 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Nov 29 19:23:14 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 19:23:14 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Fri Oct 05 14:23:53 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 14:23:53 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 05:00:05 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 05:00:25 -0700 2007