false 2120730 1 <p><i>The Romance of Happy Workers</i> swaggers through a world of cowboys, conquistadors, comrades, and housewives with mock-Russian lyric sequences and Keatsian swoon. Political and iconoclastic, Anne Boyer's poems dally in pastoral camp and a dizzying, delightful array of sights and sounds born from the dust of the Kansas plains where dinner for two is cooked in Fire King and served on depression ware, and where bawdy instructions for a modern "Home on the Range" read:</p><p><i>Mix a drink of stock lot:<br>vermouth and the water table.<br>And the bar will smell of IBP.<br>And you will lick my Laura Ingalls.</i></p><p>In Boyer's heartland, "Surfaces should be worn. Lamps should smolder. / Dahlias do bloom like tumors. The birds do rise like bombs." And the once bright and now crumbling populism of Marxists, poets, and folksingers springs vividly back to life as realism, idealism, and nostalgia do battle amongst the silos and ditchweed.</p><p><i>Nothing, too, is a subject:<br>dusk regulating the blankery.<br>Fill in the nightish sky with ardent,<br>fill in the metaphorical smell.</i></p><p>A poet and visual artist, <b>Anne Boyer</b> lives in Kansas, where she co-edits the poetry journal <i>Abraham Lincoln</i> and teaches at Kansas City Art Institute.</p> 2126167 1 4 2008 The Romance of Happy Workers total:43|5:31|4:10|3:1|2:0|1:1| 43 199 84 9 5 2 false false Sat May 03 13:11:30 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 13:18:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 16:06:16 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 08:48:37 -0700 2008 TRoHW is Kansas on a Five-Year Plan, Sandburgian regional pathos run through the thresher of Brecht. If Circe'd bothered to ask the hog farm “Who Os the Os?” it’d probably desorcel the lyric like this: “Erase great. Erase poet. Erase no.” ]]> 4 1 false false Thu Apr 24 10:57:34 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 07:44:20 -0700 2008
"Home on the Range" (And you will lick my Laura Ingalls.)

"A Twilight of Minor Poets" (staring out windows / thinking some thing or other about light.)

"Grip" (The horizon knows what / It is saying here.)

Poundcast ...more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon May 05 12:35:22 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 09 08:25:11 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 06:20:18 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 06:22:50 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu May 01 06:49:28 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 06:49:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 13 09:44:46 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 02 15:01:39 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 13 09:44:46 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 28 18:38:54 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 26 17:43:40 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 18:05:34 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 16:11:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 16 14:47:34 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 14:47:34 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Nov 15 08:51:24 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 08:51:24 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 27 17:14:23 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 17:14:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 13 11:40:10 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 11:40:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Oct 13 11:35:09 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 05:29:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 16 07:01:17 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 07:01:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 13:00:56 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 13:00:56 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 14:47:55 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:47:55 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jul 28 17:47:48 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 17:47:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 04 09:55:32 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 09:55:32 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Sep 06 19:55:19 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 21:19:29 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 19:55:19 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2120730