Losers Dream On
80 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2018
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
*
Glen
Bus Full of Dinosaurs
Worthy
First Wife
Ernest and Lionel
Hal Dead
Chilled
He Meant
Index to Hamaday: A Questionable Life
Thirteen Balloons
66 Benevolent Street
**
About Time
Yearbook Photo
Your New Assignment
Moot
Maria’s Mexican Food
Thin White Shirts
Milano Adesso
Bird’s Shadow
Poured
***
Balancing Act
Tossed Cup
Not Exactly for Talia
Freedom of Speech
Tradeoffs
Boomerang
Whizdizz
Shark Fate
Almost Dusk
After the Major Events
****
Angel at Wilkes
Their First Marriage
Sarah Sees Two Runners
A Gender Theory
The Quilmias
Your Paltry Conquests
Shadblow
Been There
Our Love Problem
Midnight, the Stars, and You
*****
You Lament
Not Nothing
Whisk Broom
Rolf Smedvig in Particular
But Also
My Other Apartment
Plot Twist
No Vacation for Maigret
Meaning
*
Glen
Bus Full of Dinosaurs
Worthy
First Wife
Ernest and Lionel
Hal Dead
Chilled
He Meant
Index to Hamaday: A Questionable Life
Thirteen Balloons
66 Benevolent Street
**
About Time
Yearbook Photo
Your New Assignment
Moot
Maria’s Mexican Food
Thin White Shirts
Milano Adesso
Bird’s Shadow
Poured
***
Balancing Act
Tossed Cup
Not Exactly for Talia
Freedom of Speech
Tradeoffs
Boomerang
Whizdizz
Shark Fate
Almost Dusk
After the Major Events
****
Angel at Wilkes
Their First Marriage
Sarah Sees Two Runners
A Gender Theory
The Quilmias
Your Paltry Conquests
Shadblow
Been There
Our Love Problem
Midnight, the Stars, and You
*****
You Lament
Not Nothing
Whisk Broom
Rolf Smedvig in Particular
But Also
My Other Apartment
Plot Twist
No Vacation for Maigret
Meaning
Review Quotes
Rosanna Warren
" 'And you try to be awake,' growls Mark Halliday. These poems are fully awake, practicing vivisection on their own delusions, complacencies, and sublimities, carving into the tissue of language. Song here sounds more like invoice than voice. Yet its wit reveals the timeless: sorrow for a dying father, a lost wife, and the core recognition of our 'dustitude.' A remarkable book."
Kevin Prufer
“Reading Losers Dream On is like listening in on the constantly shifting, uncomfortable thoughts of a mind brilliantly attuned to the world of memory and to its own intricate (often hilarious) processes. These poems take place in landscapes that seem familiar at first—snow-covered parking lots, an empty Mexican restaurant, airport gates crowded with travelers—but, under Mark Halliday’s gaze, they become dazzling and strange, filled with troublesome knowledge and the possibility of mortality and transcendence. Witty, exciting, and wide-awake, Halliday is one of the best poets at work in America today.”
Tony Hoagland
“Mark Halliday is one of our foremost technicians of the American vernacular. In Halliday's poems, James Joyce, Leave It To Beaver, and Sir Walter Raleigh all get their turn at the microphone. I admire Halliday's dedication to coherence, self-interrogation, and endless verbal playfulness. His voice is one of the most reliable, hilarious, effervescent, and moody pleasures in the contemporary canon. His rich new collection, Losers Dream On, holds its own with the high standard of his best work.”
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