Chicken on Church and Other Poems

By Jeremy Larner

Poetry. Audio CD Included. "What a magnificent celebration of existence and self...I was swept along by audacious and delightful leaps of vision and far-ranging connections. Inevitably, there will be comparisons to Whitman and Sandburg...but CHICKEN ON CHURCH goes beyond them in its specificity of human detail, and its tremendous range of reference. I marvel at the discipline in language and form which holds together so deceptively free a work. The comic tone protects the poem from grandiosity, but still, there is something grand here"--Robert Charlton. Jeremy Larner won the Delta Prize for his first novel, Drive, He Said;worked as a speechwriter for Gene McCarthy in his presidential campaign, andwrote a book about it, Nobody Knows; won an Oscar for his originalscreenplay of "The Candidate"...and thinks CHICKEN ON CHURCH & OTHER POEMSis the best work he's ever done.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977361802
• ISBN13: 9780977361809
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Big Rooster Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 5.5"