Tell Me about Your Bad Guys

Auteur

Michael Dowdy is a professor of English at Villanova University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Urbilly: Poems and American Poets in the 21st Century: The Poetics of Social Engagement, coedited with Claudia Rankine.

Texte du rabat

Combining lyric essay, memoir, and cultural critique, Michael Dowdy’s meditations on fathering take his daughter’s unruly questions as a guide, seeking a language to match his desire to be an antipatriarchal father.

Contenu

List of Illustrations
Preface: Dad Selfies

1
In the Forginning
South Padre Island
[Precario]
The Night after Newtown
Living’s Tons
[Stuffy]

2
My Nouns
My Bitter Beer Face
[Ark]
Grrrl Dad
[Monopoly]
Receiver of Wreck

3
Mountainsickness
[Back Seat]
Rappalachia 911
[Port]
Tiny Towns
[Cliché]

4
[Escaped Time]
Matilda the Trail Fairy
[Vicuña]
The Stranger’s Banquet
[Marquee]
The Scope of My Vigilance

5
My Commonplace Book
Swifties [Redacted]
[Shelter]
To-Go Mining
What We Take from the Anne Frank House
[Hovercraft]

Coda
Elementary Primer Acknowledgments