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Maybe the Saddest Thing
Overview
"These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems--self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward, talk back, backtrack, and scratch so hard they blow out the speakers with their complicated love for a huge cast of icons, from Pam Grier to Flavor Flav, from RuPaul to Dave Chapelle." --Erika Meitner
"Keats, too, would have admired the holy truth of Marcus Wicker, whose lyric wizardry astounds the ear." --D.A. Powell
Winner of the 2011 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by D.A. Powell, Marcus Wicker's Maybe the Saddest Thing is a sterling collection of contemporary American poems by an exciting new and emerging voice.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780062191014
- ISBN-10: 0062191012
- Publisher: Ecco Press
- Publish Date: October 2012
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.1 pounds
- Page Count: 96
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