Maybe the Saddest Thing

By Marcus Wicker

Book Overview

"These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems--self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward, talk back, backtrack, and scratch so hard they blow out the speakers with their complicated love for a huge cast of icons, from Pam Grier to Flavor Flav, from RuPaul to Dave Chapelle." --Erika Meitner

"Keats, too, would have admired the holy truth of Marcus Wicker, whose lyric wizardry astounds the ear." --D.A. Powell

Winner of the 2011 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by D.A. Powell, Marcus Wicker's Maybe the Saddest Thing is a sterling collection of contemporary American poems by an exciting new and emerging voice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062191012
• ISBN13: 9780062191014
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"