My index of slightly horrifying knowledge
β Scribed by Paul Guest
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 63 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 006168516X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
βA Paul Guest poem likes to pull out fast in the first line, then zigzag from one eye-opening image to another: A high-speed, innervating trip all the way.β
βDallas Morning News
Whiting Award-winning and acclaimed poet Paul GuestβsMy Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledgeis an audaciously brilliant collectionβa compendium of honesty, strange beauty, and painβpoems Louis Gluck calls, βurgent and moving,β and Robert Haas calls, βvibrant with news of the world seen from an angle of experience not available to most of us.β Mary Karr says, βGuest is a spirit to be reckoned with. Hereβs a body of new work to cheer about.β Guest's first book,The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the Worldwon the 2002 New Issues Prize in Poetry, and his second book,*Notes for My Body Double,*won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His memoir,One More Theory About Happiness will be available in May 2010.
β¦ Subjects
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