Books by Mark Halliday and Complete Book Reviews
Mark Halliday, Author . Tupelo $16.95 (86p) ISBN 978-1-932195-72-9
Known for garrulously comic moments and dead-on versions of modern Americans' colloquial speech, Halliday (Jab
) begins his fifth book of verse with purposely flat and intensely serious poems reacting to the death of his father, who lived “
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Mark Halliday, Author University of Massachusetts Press $20 (88p) ISBN 978-0-87023-776-8
How to bridge the gap between his reader's experiences and his own is the question Halliday poses, but fails to answer, in this collection. A mean-spirited rejection of another poet's confessional piece suggests the pointlessness of such literary...
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University of Chicago Press, Manufactured by, Mark Halliday, Author University of Chicago Press $15 (104p) ISBN 978-0-226-31386-3
With his fourth book of verse, the aptly titled Jab, the Ohio-based poet-critic Mark Halliday (Selfwolf) veers skillfully between autobiographical reminiscence and bleakly comic free-associations, offering late-baby-boomer slices of life along...
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