A Clown at Midnight: Poems

by Andrew Hudgins

"Recklessness and rigor, in equal measure, mark the stirring poetics of Andrew Hudgins in this fine new book. Hudgins can wrestle a rhyme scheme into submission with one hand tied behind his back and can penetrate the black heart of history with a single, subtly rendered detail. He laughs with Democritus and weeps with Heraclitus and, line by distillate line, contrives a tonic antidote to "the acetone / of American inattention." -- Linda Gregerson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544108809
• ISBN13: 9780544108806
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"