My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again

by Daisy Fried

Book Overview

My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again celebrates the contradictions and quandaries of contemporary American life. These subversive, frequently self-mocking narrative poems are by turns funny and serious, book-smart and street-smart, lyrical and colloquial. Set in Philadelphia, Paris and New Jersey, the poems are at ease with sex happiness and sex trouble, girl-talk and grownup married life, genre parody and antiwar politics, family warfare and family...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822959194
• ISBN13: 9780822959199
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.7"