Haywire
Haywire: Poems
poems by George Bilgere
foreword by Edward Field
Series: Swenson Poetry Award
Copyright Date: 2006
Published by: University Press of Colorado,
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn
Pages: 76
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgmcn
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Haywire
Book Description:

Tenth annual winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award, Haywire is a well-polished collection from a highly accomplished poet. With humor, compassion, and an unflinching eye, Bilgere explores the human condition in accessible lines and a magician's way with language. In images bright and dark, tangible and immanent, Bilgere brings us time after time to the inner reaches of a contemporary life. In subjects ranging from adolescent agony to the loss of parents to the comic pain of middle age, he finds no reason to turn away his gaze, and ultimately no reason not to define himself in joy Haywire was chosen for the Swenson Award by poet Edward Field, winner of numerous awards and a personal friend of the late May Swenson. Field describes the book this way. "This poet, you knew from his very first lines, didn't fall for anything phony-his own language is irresistibly no-bullshit down to earth, even sassy."

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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.2
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pp. ix-x)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.3
  4. FOREWORD
    FOREWORD (pp. xi-2)
    Edward Field
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.4

    I understood the danger of judging this competition right away—I’d be looking for poetry I myself would like to have written. And for the political subject matter that obsesses me in this age of ruthless empire building. No such luck in the manuscripts submitted to me. Not one real rant against the forces attacking our democracy, from the inside or the outside. No book of poems from the Iraqi front—that would certainly have been a strong contender.

    So I tried to imagine what May Swenson, the namesake of this book award, would have chosen. She was always one...

  5. ARIA
    ARIA (pp. 5-5)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.5
  6. BIRDS
    BIRDS (pp. 6-6)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.6
  7. THIS SUMMER
    THIS SUMMER (pp. 7-7)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.7
  8. THE BEAR
    THE BEAR (pp. 8-9)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.8
  9. THE SURGEON GENERAL
    THE SURGEON GENERAL (pp. 10-10)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.9
  10. THAT’S A TAKE
    THAT’S A TAKE (pp. 11-11)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.10
  11. SIMILE PRACTICE
    SIMILE PRACTICE (pp. 12-12)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.11
  12. ONCE AGAIN I FAIL TO READ AN IMPORTANT NOVEL
    ONCE AGAIN I FAIL TO READ AN IMPORTANT NOVEL (pp. 13-13)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.12
  13. HAPPY HOUR
    HAPPY HOUR (pp. 14-14)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.13
  14. THE MASTODON AT THE CARNEGIE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
    THE MASTODON AT THE CARNEGIE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (pp. 15-15)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.14
  15. JANITORIAL
    JANITORIAL (pp. 16-16)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.15
  16. SAY MY NAME
    SAY MY NAME (pp. 17-18)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.16
  17. PETROGLYPHS
    PETROGLYPHS (pp. 19-20)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.17
  18. TOSCA
    TOSCA (pp. 21-22)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.18
  19. VIKINGS
    VIKINGS (pp. 25-25)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.19
  20. MISS DECEMBER
    MISS DECEMBER (pp. 26-26)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.20
  21. BLOOD-SOAKED BEAR TURD
    BLOOD-SOAKED BEAR TURD (pp. 27-27)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.21
  22. RETARDS
    RETARDS (pp. 28-29)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.22
  23. GOOD HUMOR
    GOOD HUMOR (pp. 30-30)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.23
  24. HAYWIRE
    HAYWIRE (pp. 31-31)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.24
  25. CASABLANCA
    CASABLANCA (pp. 32-33)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.25
  26. NORELCO
    NORELCO (pp. 34-34)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.26
  27. WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
    WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? (pp. 35-35)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.27
  28. UNWISE PURCHASES
    UNWISE PURCHASES (pp. 36-37)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.28
  29. VIEW OF THE CITY OF DELFT
    VIEW OF THE CITY OF DELFT (pp. 38-39)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.29
  30. ANNIVERSARY
    ANNIVERSARY (pp. 40-40)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.30
  31. THE TABLE
    THE TABLE (pp. 41-42)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.31
  32. CHINESE
    CHINESE (pp. 43-44)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.32
  33. SHE’S GOOD
    SHE’S GOOD (pp. 47-48)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.33
  34. WAITING
    WAITING (pp. 49-50)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.34
  35. MUSEUM PIECE
    MUSEUM PIECE (pp. 51-51)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.35
  36. OLYMPICS
    OLYMPICS (pp. 52-52)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.36
  37. DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
    DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (pp. 53-53)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.37
  38. GOING TO BED
    GOING TO BED (pp. 54-54)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.38
  39. CITIZEN KANE
    CITIZEN KANE (pp. 55-55)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.39
  40. GLOBAL WARMING
    GLOBAL WARMING (pp. 56-58)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.40
  41. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 59-61)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgmcn.41