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Book SynopsisA collection containing 43 of Andre Mangeot's finest poems. Each poem begins with a cocktail recipe. The first poem is about opening a bar up in the evening, and the last about closing it at the end of the night, and in between a host of characters enter and leave, telling their stories in Carveresque fashion.
Trade ReviewGeorge Szirtes, poet: It seems there are almost as many cocktails as there are people. The mixers in Andre Mangeot's book are both. There is an element of Raymond Carver about these poems, in their humanity, their poignancy and their story-telling tightness, but there is also something open-weave, light-of-touch, natural and inviting of performance in them. Dylan Thomas and John Berryman enter and leave Mangeot's bar, which is, we feel, a familiar place. But then that is why we, and so many others, are there. R. V. Bailey, poet: His eye is acute -- for poverty, violence, the cruelties of love ... His poetry shakes the ground, as only good poetry does.
Table of ContentsAll the poem titles are named after cocktails: Atta Boy Blood and Sand Welcome, Stranger Fallen Angel Alaska Daily Mail Clap of Thunder Amsterdam Tornado AWOL Starboard Light Zipper Bull Dog Great Secret Novocaine Green Room Scotch Mist Brainstorm Garryowen Alexei's Sister Dunlop A Fine Balance Pete Southern Belle Sanctuary Babies Sunset Henry's Last Hurrah Smokey S.W.1 Slipstream Wobbly Knee Cowboy Thistle Deep Sea Ward Eight Ceasefire Firebird Crossbow Upstairs Summer Rain Affinity Beam Me Up Scotty
