Slanky Poems
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Cult poet and musician Mike Doughty makes his print debut with Slanky, a black-comic stroll through the demimondes of pop culture and modern urban life. Doughty's poems are at once absurdist and matter-of-fact; the images he conjures are thrown into high relief through cutting wordplay. In a series of prose poems about showbiz, he reimagines Cookie Monster as a burned-out suicide, and cheesy talk-show host Joe Franklin as a cross-dressing witness to the apocalypse. And in For Charlotte, Unlisted," he wrenchingly tracks the elusive memory of a faded romance.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781887128711 |
Publisher: | Soft Skull Press |
Imprint: | Soft Skull Press |
Pub date: | 09 Aug 2002 |
DEWEY: | 811.6 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 78 |
Weight: | 113g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 6mm |