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All You Ask For is Longing: New and Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum) Paperback – May 13, 2014

by Sean Thomas Dougherty (Author)
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For over twenty years Sean Thomas Dougherty has negotiated between modernist and avant-garde writing and more populist traditions that extend back to Walt Whitman. His subject matter ranges from basketball to Bjork, from blue collar workers to Biggie Smalls, from Luciano Pavarotti to women waiting at a diner outside a prison in Upstate New York. Selecting from the best of eight previous collections, this New and Selected reveals the powerful arc and development of Dougherty's writing and establishes him as a voice of dissent for the future.

A former Fulbright fellow, Sean Thomas Dougherty works at Gold Crown Billiards in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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  1. Part of series
    American Poets Continuum
  2. Print length
    208 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    BOA Editions Ltd.
  5. Publication date
    May 13, 2014
  6. Dimensions
    6.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1938160304
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1938160301
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"[Dougherty] wears his heart on both sleeves―he is not for everyone: but readers in search of socially conscious vigor, of street energy and “something to hold onto,” may find that Dougherty is just what they need." ―Publishers Weekly

“Dougerty has been a staple of the underground poetry scene for nearly 30 years. He’s come up the hard way―no overnight successes, no long-term university positions―and his poetry is as honest and ALIVE as any you’ll read. When people talk about the poetry scene going soft or the scourge of 'workshopped poems' or, God forbid, the death of poetry―it’s because they haven’t read Dougherty’s work. This New and Selected volume covers his full career-to-date and should wake us all up to the underground sound that’s throbbing like a bass drum in the heart of contemporary poetry. Poetry ain’t dead. It’s working in a pool hall in Erie, Pennsylvania.” ―BUSTLE

"There is unflinching realism in his work that the astute reader soon realizes that his poetry and his humanitarianism are among the most worthy American literary descendants of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, whom Dougherty refers to as the father and mother of American poetry.” ―Utah Review

"Dougherty celebrates a pivotal (if symbolic) touchstone. For more than two decades Dougherty has maintained a unique place in contemporary poetry by honoring the ghost notes of our everyday life. The breadth of this selected collection charts the development of Dougherty’s career and examines our conflated assumptions of race, class, and the urban experience.... His work, however personal, can also serve as a kind of historical record; the heart inside the heart of urban America. The political realities of our time are evoked on every page, whether or not Dougherty calls them out by name. Rather, it is the canvas backdrop of an extended portrait spanning two decades of indelible poetry." —Pleiades

About the Author

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of Nightshift Belonging to Lorca, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; Except by Falling, winner of the 2000 Pinyon Press Poetry Prize from Mesa State College; and BOA titles Broken Hallelujahs, Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line, and All You Ask For is Longing: New and Selected Poems.

His awards include two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry. Known for his electrifying performances, he has toured extensively across North America and Europe. He received an MFA in poetry from Syracuse University and lives in Erie, PA where he teaches writing workshops.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BOA Editions Ltd.; First Edition (May 13, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1938160304
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1938160301
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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Sean Thomas Dougherty was born in NYC, and grew up in Brooklyn, NY; Toledo, Ohio; and Manchester, NH. Over the decades he has worked in a newspaper plant, as a college lecturer, as a houseman in a pool hall, and as a writer and performer. Dorianne Laux has called him “the gypsy punk heart of American poetry.” Dougherty is the author of 15 books, including The Second O of Sorrow (BOA Editions, forthcoming 2018); All You Ask for is Longing: Poems 1994-2014 (BOA Editions); Scything Grace (Etruscan Press, 2013); and Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (BOA Editions, 2010), which was a finalist for Binghamton University's Milton Kessler Poetry Book Award. His has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and his work appeared in Best American Poetry 2014.

Known for his dynamic readings, Dougherty has performed at hundreds of venues, including in Albania and Macedonia where he appeared on national television, sponsored by the US State Department. He lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he works as a medical technician.

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LMKaminski
5.0 out of 5 stars MUST HAVE - should be in every library
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2014
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MUST-HAVE collection of contemporary poetry, relevant and accessible. I think this book belongs not only on the bookshelf of every poet and student of American literature, but also in every library.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry doesn't get much better than the work of Sean Thomas Dougherty
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Poetry doesn't get much better than the work of Sean Thomas Dougherty. This is a stunning selection of his artistry and words gathered into love, loss and a deep sense of longing. A book to be savored, a poet to be revered.
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Philip Metres
5.0 out of 5 stars Sean Thomas Dougherty is a real original. He's a ...
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Sean Thomas Dougherty is a real original. He's a bard of mean streets and the laureate of pool halls, singing bodegas in canzones ("Bodega de Booty Canzone") and obereks (a form he invented) for Etheridge Knight. At once erudite and earthy, Dougherty reminds us why poetry belongs not to the academy but to garages and stoops, pool halls and flyover rust-belt towns. If he comes through town to perform his work, you will be mesmerized.
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Mr Danny J Cogan
5.0 out of 5 stars Shakespeare in the urban ashes
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This books should indeed be in any serious literary library. A voice of unflinching truth, evoking the hurts and heroism and celestial beauty in the ordinary, in poverty, deprivation, and abandonment. Threaded through with wit and wry hope. Sean Thomas Dougherty. What a star.
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