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Wenderoth returns with poems of broad scope: coarse, playful, and unapologetically earnest.
List of contents
Satan 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
About the author
Joe Wenderoth grew up near Baltimore. He is the author of No Real Light (Wave Books, 2007),The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft’s Secret Self (Verse Press, 2005) and Letters to Wendy’s (Verse Press, 2000). Wesleyan University Press published his first two books of poems: Disfortune (1995) and It Is If I Speak (2000). He is a Professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
