Lack Lyrics

By Jay Millar

Poetry. Imagine the conflictual aesthetic that might arise out of being downsized from what essentially amounts to a dead-end job you don't find particularly meaningful. One day at work while waiting for the job to end you begin to e-mail yourself nasty little messages that accumulate into poems containing all sorts of things you wish you could say, but can't. The only outlet you seem to have is the poem, and you understand how unfortunate that is, how useless it is, but it's all you have. And then one day you go into work and it's your last day, and you shake your employer's hand good-bye, and you leave. And that's it. All you have left are your poems. And they eventually become LACK LYRICS by Jay MillAr, a pathetically self-published chapbook that has no spine, isn't eligible for the kinds of funding, attention, or prizes that "real books" or poetry qualify for. It doesn't even have any blurbish endorsements from other writers attached to it. It even ties for the 2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award, proving that it lacks even that certain something it takes to win an entire prize.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897388071
• ISBN13: 9781897388075
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Book*hug
• Length: 40 Pages