Count Four: Poems

Count Four, winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, is a book about trying to reconcile the conflicting elements of one's identity and attempting to understand and articulate the forces that are shaping it. Many of the poems in the collection were written over years the poet spent as a musician in and around the East Coast punk scene. They try to make sense of how the things and people he loves most in this environment are also what are most likely to destroy him.

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Count Four: Poems

Count Four, winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, is a book about trying to reconcile the conflicting elements of one's identity and attempting to understand and articulate the forces that are shaping it. Many of the poems in the collection were written over years the poet spent as a musician in and around the East Coast punk scene. They try to make sense of how the things and people he loves most in this environment are also what are most likely to destroy him.

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Count Four: Poems

Count Four: Poems

by Keith Kopka
Count Four: Poems

Count Four: Poems

by Keith Kopka

Overview

Count Four, winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, is a book about trying to reconcile the conflicting elements of one's identity and attempting to understand and articulate the forces that are shaping it. Many of the poems in the collection were written over years the poet spent as a musician in and around the East Coast punk scene. They try to make sense of how the things and people he loves most in this environment are also what are most likely to destroy him.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781597321785
Publisher: University of Tampa Press
Publication date: 10/15/2020
Pages: 110
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

Table of Contents

Contents

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Interrogation 1

SECTION I

You, Strung 5

Cold Pastoral 10

Asia Carrera's XXX Buttkicking Homepage, 1998 12

At the Haunted Doll Market 14

Monument 16

Vinny the Tailor 19

Iki Dugno 22

Not Holding the Gun 29

Homecoming 32

For a Moment I Feel Immortal, or, Rather, Disappointed 34

Georgic on the Boston Comma 36

Square Dance Conspiracy 38

SECTION II

Tour

I. On Stage 45

II. I Don't Know Where the Gun Came from 47

III. Lafayette, Indiana: Star City 49

IV. Not a Real Cowboy Movie 51

V. With Three Confederate Flags on the Brim 53

VI. Kentucky 55

VII. Fend 57

VIII. Notes on Speed 59

SECTION III

Hiding with My Mom 63

I'll Tell You the Same Thing I Told the Other Detective 67

Coke Folks 69

After Talking It Over with His Ghost,

My Father Tells Me He's Sick 73

Ancient Astronaut Theory 75

Etymology 77

Hollywood Ave. 80

All We Do Is Begin 85

The Birds of Montreal 87

Dwight Yoakam's Hat 90

At Dinner, When Someone Says Reading Poems Is Torture 92

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Acknowledgments 95

About the Author 99

About the Book 100

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