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Book Synopsis"Best-known for his gritty and uproarious prose poetry collection Letters to Wendy's, Wenderoth began his career with two books of gimlet-eyed, world-weary, hard-hitting poetry. Now he returns to verse, favoring (as before) relatively short poems, often twelve lines or fewer, most of which crackle with a bleakness that's part gallows humor, part outrage, and part despair."--Publishers Weekly, starred review of No Real Light "A perverse, sometimes pretty, obscene, and confounding collection of one page meditative missives ...trimmed with lunatic fringe."--Rolling Stone review of Letters to Wendy's Whether it's addressing the grotesque in daily scenes or upsetting the norms of professional culture, Joe Wenderoth's fifth collection resonates with his signature intellect and disturbing humor. He is at once an aesthete and an iconoclast who brings inventive force to American poetry. Early Capitalism they are perfecting the pillow with which you are being suffocated now it sings to you and shows you pictures Joe Wenderoth grew up near Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of No Real Light, The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self, and Letters to Wendy's. Wesleyan University Press published his first two books of poems: Disfortune and It Is If I Speak. He is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
Table of ContentsSatan Is Real Assembling Your Clown Titty-Bar My Coronation Hummingbird Feeder Hanging Up Some Xmas Lights In Late February Early Capitalism The Secret Life Of Elvis At The Crash Site Stutterer’s Holiday Song Sincerity Language The Future Nine-Piece Flameless Glitter Village With Timer Evening Without News Rural Whites Like Grandfather, For Instance, Or Like A Possum Living In Your Backyard Letter To A Young Poet The Doctor’s Advice Manufacturing Consent The Sacrifice He Stopped Loving Her Today Crisis In Historicity The Death Of A Loved One Way In The Middle Of The Air Speech Given To A Machine You There Darkness Heart Like A Glass Mousetrap 1855 Preface To Leaves of Grass Like A Poop Sandwich In Heaven Pornographic Appeal (Prayer) To Tezcatlipoca Access Hollywood Entrepreneur Cover Letter Political Affiliation Manifesto Experimental Poem Genetics Flowerbomb We Share Arrows Singing Comes Cheap To Those Who Do Not Pay For It Metonymy How To Visit Europe On A Budget And So, My Disciples Heavy Snow Falling On Burning House Snail How To Write Post-Eidetic Poetry 24 Hour Fitness Letter To Dick Cheney Undergraduate Orientation In The Imaginary House That Holds It All Of It Gone Dean Martin Skit Idea The Limbless Man Seems To Have Fallen An Injured Ship Nemontemi Gangbang Etiquette In Retrospect The Difference Between The Living And The Dead
