Disfortune

by Joe Wenderoth

Disfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting lyrics expose the irreducible contradictions of living, wherein "the talking-singing, the whole talking-/singing ball of yarn, begins to unravel." Deceptively casual in tone, these poems offer startling confrontations with "the unoriginal/oblivion," with "the contrived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819512265
• ISBN13: 9780819512260
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"