Social Comedies: Poems

By David Blair

In Social Comedies, David Blair improvises, gets hyperbolic, and taps into the spirit of free-flowing conversation to create a collection that is at once buoyant, dark, comic, and searching. These poems, all written over the course of a single fall, emerge from a moment when thoughtful discourse and simple human kindness, unlike aggression and self-righteousness, often seem in short supply.

Against that backdrop, Blair turns toward attention, curiosity, satire and subversive generosity, writing toward openness, connection, and surprise. The fleeting impulses of contemporary life take on unexpected force. Facts give way to deeper truths, nostalgia tests the limits of memory, and private moments open onto larger questions of how to live with one another in an age of distraction, uncertainty, and absurdity. Through riffs, voices, variations, and sudden shifts in perspective, Social Comedies transforms the everyday into something strange, revelatory, and deeply human.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647793122
• ISBN13: 9781647793128
• Release Date: December 2027
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher