

Whether viewing this life with existential gravity or consumerist glee, McGarth creates poetry that is at once public and profoundly personal. Spring comes to Chicago (1996 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. Tufts Poetry Award (for The Bob Hope Poem in Spring Comes to Chicago, his third book of poems). In the centerpiece of the book, The Bob Hope Poem, McGrath confronts the paradoxes that energize and confound us-examining his own avid affection for People magazine and contemplating such diverse subjects as Wittgenstein, meat packers, money, and, of course, Bob Hope himself. Spring comes to Chicago by Campbell McGrath, 1996, Ecco Press edition, in English - 1st ed. Campbell McGrath (born 1962) is a modern American poet.

Now, in Spring Comes to Chicago, McGrath pushes deeper into the jungle of American culture, exposing and celebrating our native hungers and dreams. Ĭapitalism and American Noise introduced readers to the musical, comedic, and impassioned voice of poet Campbell McGrath. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares several times, as well as in The New Yorker, Harpers, The New York Times, and Antaeus. In the centerpiece of the book, The Bob Hope Poem, McGrath confronts the paradoxes that energize and confound us-examining his own avid affection for People magazine and contemplating such diverse subjects as Wittgenstein, meat packers, money, and, of. His three books are Capitalism (Wesleyan, 1990), American Noise (Ecco, 1994), and Spring Comes to Chicago (Ecco, 1996), which won the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Capitalism and American Noise introduced readers to the musical, comedic, and impassioned voice of poet Campbell McGrath.
