So Frag & So Bold: Short Poems, Aphorisms & Other Wartime Fun

By Randy Brown

Book Overview

"Every poet," warns Randy Brown, "has a heart filled / with shrapnel."

In his new chapbook "So Frag & So Bold," the former U.S. Army "brigade staff jester" takes aim at endless wars, parent traps, social media, and stodgy religious beliefs. It's an iconoclastic cluster-munition that's bursting with hundreds of haiku, aphorisms, philosophical puzzles, and other experiments in pithy and pulpy poetry.

Brown's careful constructions of line-breaks and language are intended to variously provoke chuckles, empathy, and thought. "Any poem is a device," he writes, "improvised to explode with meaning [...] ignited by a trigger / word."

Get ready for amusement, bemusement, and plenty of pyrotechnics!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1953665047
• ISBN13: 9781953665041
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Middle West Press LLC
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"