A Mouth in California

By Graham Foust and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

A Mouth in California, Graham Foust's fourth book of poetry, uses the ironies and anxieties of contemporary life as a foil for mordant and sometimes violent humor. Through mangled aphorisms, misheard song lyrics, and off-key phrasing, Foust creates a unique idiom of tragicomic pratfalls, a ballet of falling down. Yet the elasticity of Foust's language repels the stiff-necked adversaries of thought: "what's the wrong way to break / that brick of truth back into music?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981952011
• ISBN13: 9780981952017
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Flood Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"