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Ballyhoo

Name: Ballyhoo
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421428758
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421428758

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By Hastings Hensel
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Format: PAPERBACK
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Pages: 104

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Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensel's Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled meditations on language's limits and its necessity, as well as on the many forms that humor takes'comedy, laughter, farce, clowning, parody, and more'Hensel navigates fine lines between joy and sadness, jokes and cruelty, reality and illusion, and irony and sincerity.

Universal in scope, the 47 poems in Ballyhoo are richly idiomatic and evocative. They are also frequently grounded in the southern Atlantic coast with its particular ecology, characters, history, and myth. The pleasure in reading these poems comes from the original connections Hensel makes between the literary and the gritty: an elegy set in a bait shop, Twelfth Night's Feste delivering a monologue in a bar, a villanelle about a murder on a cruise ship.

These intelligent, insightful poems remind us of the frail but important relationships between comedy, memory, and identity. Ballyhoo offers a sobering examination of the tragicomic nature of the world.

Spoiler Alert True Story, No Joke Comedy and the Uncommon Woman That Laugh You Have, or, A Study in the Via Negativa Playing Cards with Mark Strand Plot Summary Reality as Prank ""Forgive Us Our Happiness"" Recovering the Sunk Docent Freud in 1939 Mr. Hall Against Jubilance What We Need Here Is a New Dialect Noun Reading the Water Coaching the Witness Questions from the Witness Old Feste, at the Bar, Remembering On Taste Forgetting a Flood Stage Right Thinking I Wanted Country Humor At Slack Tide After Seeing Four Turtles on a Stump in the Waccamaw River Funny Farm Scraping Barnacles from the Hull The Bait Shop Elegies Pumping the Trout's Stomach Storyboard At the Grave of the Fabulous Moolah The Comedian Questions Her Timing Counterpunch Lines Sea Pork Misfit, Mountain Town Sad Clown in the Woods, No Hoax Wanted: The Raccoon on the Dock True Story, No Joke Knuckleheads Ode to a Boat Mechanic Laughing Gull Wherever Hoke The Funny Pages Throwbacks As I Lay Dying Laughing Any Which Way You Cut It Nothing Liquid, Fragile, Hazardous, Perishable To a Seated Harlequin Acknowledgments About the Author

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