The Emperor's Sofa

By Greg Santos

The Emperor's Sofa is a sprawling gift of outrageous artifice, a world of Mad Magazine intensity enriched by Ashberyian ironies and McGimpseyian pleasures. Santos imagines a poetic land of deranged heroes and unmasked anti-heroic marvels - funny, poignant, and profound. Behind the fa ade of the Emperor's restless opulence stands this collection's insight; a new poetics has landed, after the wars - a copious Montreal Style of styles, where, from its royal mount, "the view is indeed magnificent." This marks the spot where a brilliant poet debuts - fully cognizant of the clash between the trashy new and the zany old, and of all the useless beauty in between.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897190670
• ISBN13: 9781897190678
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: DC Books
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.7"