Holoholo / Barbara Hamby.

"Holoholo is the Hawaiian word for walking out with no destination in mind. In the three sections of this book, Barbara Hamby walks out into the current American chaos with its inferno of wars, street violence, apocalyptic fantasies, and racial tension. Fueled by an American lingo that embraces...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hamby, Barbara, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Series:Pitt poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Americanski Odes
  • Ode on Fire
  • Ode on My Prison
  • Ode on My Mother's Lingo
  • Ode on the Funny Papers
  • Ode on My Grandmother the Mohel
  • Ode on Departed Slang
  • Ode on the Diner
  • Ode to Dime Stores and Their Lunch Counters, Bins of Penny Candy, and Pretty Lipsticks All in a Row
  • Ode to Laundromats
  • Ode on Words for Parties (American Edition)
  • Ode on Spring, Spontaneous Bang Requests, Dance Scenes in Movies
  • Ode on Being Backwards and Inside Out and in a Wreck with Myself
  • Ode to the Last Peach of Summer
  • Ode to Driving on Venice Boulevard with Emily Dickinson
  • Ontological Odes
  • Ode to Marivaudage, Ratiocination, and Blahblahblah
  • Ode on My Nightingale
  • Ode to My Younger Self
  • Ode to the DNA Cocktail (Shake That Baby, Oh Yeah)
  • Ode on Anger, the Dalai Lama, and Elliot's Red Boots
  • Ode on My Blindness
  • Ode on Following My Mind
  • Ode to My Green Gloves
  • Ode to Yiddish, Gratitude, and the Feeling You Have for Someone You Once Loved but Love No More
  • Ode on the Moon, Pontormo, and Losing My Mind
  • Ode on the End of the World
  • Ode to the Middle of the Night
  • Ode to the Sacred Heart of Everyone, Including You and You and You
  • My Holoholo Odes
  • Ode on Going Holoholo and Getting Lost
  • Ode on Killing Sadness
  • Ode on Gauguin, Russia, Arles, and Consciousness
  • Ode to San Giorgio of the Gorgeous Brassieres
  • Ode on the Brides of India
  • Ode to Words for Smell
  • Ode to Words for Sounds
  • Ode on Things I Cannot See
  • Ode to the Dogs of Valparaiso
  • Ode to Neruda's Hats in Isla Negra
  • Ode on Girlfriends, the Brain, and Those Little Cookies You Dip in Wine
  • Ode to Drawing Donatello's David Again
  • Ode to Poets in Paris with Oysters and Lies