Conditional Future Perfect: Poems

Curley, Dan

ISBN 10: 1950066002 / ISBN 13: 9781950066001

Published by Wolfson Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conditional Future Perfect: Poems
• Publisher: Wolfson Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950066002
• ISBN 13: 9781950066001
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Johnson, S.L.
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Conditional Future Perfect, Dan Curley’s first book of poetry, is richly comic and subtly serious. The forty-eight poems in this volume invite us to share the daily wonders and blunders of family life, the ephemeral feelings and lasting lessons of travel (in Italy, mostly Rome), and a range of elegies and other life stories that take us outside of ourselves. In poem after poem, Curley is thoughtful, conversational, and witty. This is accessible poetry of the everyday that nevertheless lifts us to the heights of comprehension, revealing our inevitable follies and essential dignity.

About the Author

Dan Curley grew up loving Greek mythology, which became a gateway drug to Latin, which turned him into a serial classicist. Curley is an associate professor in the Classics Department at Skidmore College. He is the author of Tragedy in Ovid: Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre (Cambridge University Press 2013) and a forthcoming textbook on classical myth in cinema. His interest in poetry has been lifelong. For years he taught and wrote about other people's poetry, but never gave much thought to writing any himself, his days as a garage-rocker notwithstanding. Things change, and somewhere along the line, like Juvenal, he got tired of being just a listener.