Publisher's Synopsis
SEVEN WAYS TO PRUNE A GRAPEFRUIT is the long-awaited second collection from literary provocateur Johnny Wink. With three dozen poems spanning three decades, the collection showcases Wink's comitragic wit and restless, inventive genius. Poems such as 'Great Gray Moles', 'Learning to Read', and 'Poem That Some Think Should Be Entitled "Generic Joke"' deploy clandestine erudition and cunning wordplay to confront aging, education, sex, death, and other riddles of the human condition. Often funny, frequently moving, but always a startling delight, SEVEN WAYS TO PRUNE A GRAPEFRUIT heralds the maturity of a uniquely individual poetic voice.
