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    The Lookout Man
    The Lookout Man
    The Lookout Man
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    The Lookout Man

    By Stuart Dischell

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    Vivid poems full of drama and action by award-winning poet Stuart Dischell.
     
    Sometimes elegiac, sometimes deadly comic, and always transformative, The Lookout Man embodies the energy, spirit, and craft that we have come to depend upon in Stuart Dischell’s poetry. Inhabiting a mix of lyric structures, these poems are set in diverse locales from the middle of the ocean to the summit of Mont Blanc, from the backyards of America to the streets of international cities. There is a hesitant, almost encroaching wisdom in The Lookout Man, as Dischell allows his edgy vision and singular perspectives to co-exist with the music of his poems. In lines that close the book and typify Dischell’s work, he writes, “I will ask the dogwoods to remind me // What it means to live along the edges of the woods, / To be promiscuous but bear white flowers.”
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateMar 28, 2022
    ISBN9780226817842
    The Lookout Man
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    Stuart Dischell

    Stuart Dischell's work has appeared in many publications, including The New Republic, Partisan Review, and Ploughshares. He has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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      The Lookout Man - Stuart Dischell

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      The Lookout Man

      The Lookout Man

      Stuart Dischell

      The University of Chicago Press

      Chicago and London

      The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

      The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

      © 2022 by The University of Chicago

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.

      Published 2022

      Printed in the United States of America

      31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22     1 2 3 4 5

      ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81783-5 (paper)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81784-2 (e-book)

      DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226817842.001.0001

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Dischell, Stuart, author.

      Title: The lookout man / Stuart Dischell.

      Other titles: Phoenix poets.

      Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago, [2022] | Series: Phoenix poets

      Identifiers: LCCN 2021034803 | ISBN 9780226817835 (paperback) | ISBN 9780226817842 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3554.I827 L66 2022 | DDC 811/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021034803

      This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

      for TERRY KENNEDY

      Look out, lookout man.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      ONE

      Lines of the Prodigal

      The Foreigner

      Inside the Statue

      Coda (Broken, He Saw Himself at Last)

      Lines about Ships at Sea

      Lines about Mountains

      Lines about Rivers, Then the Sea

      Lines about the Snow

      Lines about the Wind

      Lines above the Tree Line

      Lines of Evolutionary Progress

      Lines at the End of the Year

      TWO

      The Work Zone

      Taint

      Lines in the Outage

      The Arcade, 1962

      White Horse Pike

      Action in the Pacific

      Lines about Emptiness

      Time Was the Rider

      Lines of the Elderly Orphan

      Lines along the Shore

      The Last Days on Ocean Lane

      Meeting My Parents for a Weekend in New York, 1988

      Lines on the Invention of Shoes

      Lines in the Backyard

      Lines about Her

      For Hubert Desmarest

      For Oksana Shachko

      THREE

      The Streets of the Capital

      Lines on a Train to the Alps

      Cities of the Blue Coast

      In a Corner of the Sky

      Lines in Regard to a Morning Swim

      The Measurement of

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