| Author/Contributor(s): | Doughty, Mike |
| Publisher: | Soft Skull |
| Date: | 10/2/2012 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Doughty's poems are at once absurdest and matter-of-fact; the images he conjures are thrown into high relief through cutting wordplay. In a series of prose poems about showbiz, he re imagines Cookie Monster as a burned-out suicide, and cheesy talk-show host Joe Franklin as a cross-dressing witness to the apocalypse. And in "For Charlotte, Unlisted" he wrenchingly tracks the elusive memory of a faded romance.