American Busboy

"In American Busboy, a wry anti-mythology, the anti-hero busboy in an anonymous Clam Shack! tangles with the monotonous delirium of work, the indignities and poor pay of unskilled labor, the capricious deus ex machina of mean-spirited middle management, the zombified consumption of summer tourists, while jostling for the goddess-like attentions of waitresses and hostesses-all battered up in sizzlingly crisp wit and language, and deep-fried in a shiny glaze of surrealism." -Lee Ann Roripaugh

About the author

Matthew Guenette's poems have appeared in Barn Owl Review, Anti-, New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, and The National Poetry Review. He lives and works in Madison, WI., and is the author of Sudden Anthem.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Guenette
• Publisher: The University of Akron Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2011
• EAN: 9781931968980
• ISBN: 978-1-931968-98-0
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Series: Akron Series in Poetry (Hardco; Akron Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies