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Winner of the 2001 Akron Poetry Prize<\/b><\/p>\n

The Good Kiss<\/i> 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 the 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/i>
\n\u2014Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate<\/b><\/p>\n

About the author<\/h3>\n
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George Bilgere is the author of two previous collections of poetry,\u00a0The Going<\/i>\u00a0(University of Missouri Press) and\u00a0Big Bang<\/i>\u00a0(Copper Beech Press). His poems have appeared in such periodicals and anthologies as\u00a0Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Best American Poetry<\/i>. 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 a professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Good Kiss<\/h3>\n

by George Bilgere<\/h4>\n

Pages: 61<\/p>\n

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