Product Description

The Good Kiss is a collection of poems dealing loosely with the subjects of divorce, sexuality, and American Culture from the 1950's to today. The poems vary in tone from the fairly serious to the reflective and meditative, to wryly comic. Perhaps it is fair to say that this range of tones exists within many of the individual poems, and is their defining characteristic. Poems like "What I Want," and "The Good Kiss" are good examples of these quirky, rather unexpected tonal shifts and blendings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #763802 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 61 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781884836930
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"The Good Kiss is full of delights and surprises--connections that will widen your eyes and sudden turns from the humorous into the serious that will throw you against the door. Such effects are the product of a poet who knows how to blend ingeniously the sentimental and the sarcastic, the smart and the innocent, the trivial and the desperately serious. In the house of contemporary poetry, this book is a welcome breath of fresh American air."

From the Author
"The Good Kiss is full of delights and surprises--connections that will widen your eyes and sudden turns from the humorous into the serious that will throw you against the door. Such effects are the product of a poet who knows how to blend ingeniously the sentimental and the sarcastic, the smart and the innocent, the trivial and the desperately serious. In the house of contemporary poetry, this book is a welcome breath of fresh American air."
--Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureate

About the Author
George Bilgere is the author of two previous collections of poetry, The Going (University of Missouri Press) and Big Bang (Copper Beech Press). His poems have appeared in such periodicals and anthologies as Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and The Best American Poetry. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Fulbright Commission, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council, he is professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Customer Reviews

Quote from U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins
The Good Kiss is full of delights and surprises -- connections that will widen your eyes and sudden turns from the humorous into the serious that will throw you against the door. Such effects are the product of a poet who knows how to blend ingeniously the sentimental and the sarcastic, the smart and the innocent, the trivial and the desperately serious. In the house of contemporary poetry, this book is a welcome breath of fresh air.

A TRUE POET
George Bilgere is a true poet. He can make me laugh; he can make me cry. While his subject matter may be foreign to me and my experience, his expression is familiar. He creates in me sympathy, empathy, joy, sorrow, delight, even as he informs. There is an optimism, however, which GB cannot extinguish. It may be that to which I respond most favorably.