Bibliograph

Tough luck, poems, Todd Boss

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Tough luck, poems, Todd Boss

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 100)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Tough luck

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

959885743

Responsibility statement

Todd Boss

Sub title

poems

Summary

At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-stopping view of the muscled waters below. Marriage, family, home all come crashing down, but Todd Boss rebuilds with his trademark musicality and "a reverent gusto for representing the tactile aspects of human life" (Tony Hoagland).From "In the End a Gardener":is what we want in our corner of paradise. Someone alert to the slant of one hour of afternoon sunlight or other,who knows what to plant there,knows what will thrive

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