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Part of the Bargain - (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets) by Scott Hightower (Paperback)

Part of the Bargain - (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets) by  Scott Hightower (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Hayden Carruth Award winner, selected by Sam Hamill, is an exhilarating sweep of philosophical idylls<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Part of the Bargain</i>, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award and selected from nearly 1,000 entries, is both a cabinet of curiosities and a sweep of philosophical idylls. Hightower's poems range in style and subject, with soliloquies, laments, eccentric ponderings, and contemplations of appetite and art.</p><p><b>From <i>Door to the Terrace</i></b></p><p><i>You withdraw from me like a match<br> From a final cigarette and dance every<br> Abandonment. The strains of music<br> That accompany you float away with you.</i></p><p>The book's epigraph evokes a Faustian contract, which is echoed in the tensions between urban and rural, light and dark, moral and amoral action. Hightower's influences--Sappho, Virgil, Blake, and Wilde--make their presence known as he reflects upon life in urban America after growing up in rural Texas, about coming of age as a gay man, about art and artists, poetry and painting.</p><p><b>From <i>Spending the Night</i></b></p><p><i>Now, in another part of the country, <br> I hear it called "staying over."<br> Back then, a couple of years<br> was a gaping difference.<br> The ornately carved door<br> covering the strings of an upright<br> melded into the headboard<br> of the bed . . .</i></p><p><i>Part of the Bargain</i> also explores the imperceptible reconciliations that one makes as an individual, a part of a community, and as a conscientious heir to a culture. Valences of sexuality, nationality, literality all swirl together and perform a balancing act as the poet aspires to pull back the curtain of "the ineffable pageantry" of our multilayered lives.</p><p><b>Scott Hightower</b> is the author of two books of poems, <i>Tin Can Tourist</i> and <i>Natural Trouble</i>. His writings have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including <i>Salmagundi</i>, <i>The Yale Review</i>, and <i>The Paris Review</i>. He teaches at Fordham University and New York University and is a contributing editor to <i>The Journal</i>. He lives in New York City.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Scott Hightower is the author of two books of poetry. He teaches at Fordham University and is a contributing editor to The Journal. He lives in New York City.

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