Description

“On the surface, this book tells a ‘Saturday morning world’ story of Americans playing it (and singing it) cool, our middle-aged speaker-hero doing nothing more mutinous than ‘futzing in [his] garden, hoeing hills for Peruvian potatoes.’ But simmering below that grocery store world of ‘being served lukewarm beige meals with latex gloves’ is a beautifully mournful meditation on our ‘lives…sandblasted by heartache and disillusionment.’ Yes, this book is ‘haunted by the knowledge that the mirage is a mirage.’ It’s also a wise, cynical, hilariously dialectical and contradictory low-grade-fever carnival ride interested in ‘the entire scope of suffering.’ It starts at Ultra Talk, but is extra downhearted. And jumpier. Sick of how unreal American reality has become but want to take a load off too? This book’s for you!”
—Adrian Blevins

About the Author

Bruce Cohen's poems and non-fiction essays have appeared in over a hundred literary periodicals such as AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner & The Southern Review as well as being featured on Poetry Daily & Verse Daily. He has published three volumes of poetry: Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press), which was awarded the 2007 Orphic Poetry Prize, Swerve (Black Lawrence Press) and Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep (Black Lawrence Press). A new book: No Soap, Radio! will appear in 2015. A recipient of an individual artist grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, prior to joining the Creative Writing faculty at the University of Connecticut in 2012, he directed, developed, and implemented nationally recognized academic enhancement programs at the University of Arizona, The University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Connecticut.

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