Haywire: Poems - Winner of the Swenson Poetry Award | Thought-Provoking Poetry Collection for Book Lovers & Literary Enthusiasts
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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 joyHaywire 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."
Customer Reviews
First I began noticing George Bilgere's nameon Writer's Almanac. I'm not good at rememberingnames, but these were poems I passed along to friendsinsisting, "You must read this!" Then I read "The BridalShower." That did it. Bilgere had crawled inside my headand stolen my unborn poem. Instead of pressing charges,I ordered Haywire from Amazon. Now I'm stalking Bilgere,waiting for his next book, watching for poems on-line,and hoping someday to catch him live at a reading.If you love poetry, you'll love Bilgere.You'll love how he pulls in his audience by using accessiblelanguage and wit to do extraordinary things--like puttinglittle bits of your own life on paper. He remembers momentsyou thought you'd forgotten. And, if you don't love poetry,read Bilgere. He'll change your mind.
