The Appendectomy Grin - Softcover

Rafferty, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1960145800 ISBN 13: 9781960145802

Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd., 2025

Inhaltsangabe

As a second-wave veteran of the form, Charles Rafferty has emerged as one of America’s greatest living prose poets. Rafferty’s new collection, The Appendectomy Grin, is a model of the sort of bemused, domestic poeticism (or is it pessimism?) that only a master prose poet can deliver.

Compact in size, but massive in scope, these poems explore the death of self, country, and planet, while remaining grounded in humor and the miracles of everyday life. In a world that is changing faster than ever, The Appendectomy Grin is a deep breath, a meditation, a rhythmic tickle fight, a slightly off-kilter manual on how to remain present and lucid in a world that seems intent on destroying itself.

The result is an argument you cannot disbelieve by a poet leaving his unique scuffmarks on the linoleum kitchen floor of the world. Does the executioner have a rationale for the order of our beheadings? Ask Charles Rafferty. The answer is in the book.

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Charles Rafferty is the author of 15 poetry books and chapbooks. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, O: Oprah Magazine, The Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1960145800
• ISBN 13: 9781960145802
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 101
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