The Last Great Glass Meat Million

By John Thomas Menesini

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972630112
• ISBN13: 9780972630115
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Six Gallery Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

When the Pome Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie

A poet of a dying sentiment, embracing its death, wondering where life will come from--this book is wonderful. In The Last Great Glass Meat Million, Menesini plays with the words and the scenes of his childhood in ways that bring this lawnchair and gravel lifestyle to our minds in burning ways, whether it was like our own childhood, or whether this is your first encounter with that charcoal-town entity. And then, there are later poems, too, bringing the idea to maturity in a linoleum-never-dies sense. Menesini is one of my favorite poets, and this book is one of the reasons.

Menagerie of the Mind

The Spirit is alive in the work of Menesini, at once sacred and profane: a living oracle of the boundless possibilities of the sensate.

Beauty in desolation

This stunning work brings back all the memories from a childhood spent playing in powdery dirt alleys with broken beer bottles.. throwing rocks at cars in my dirty yellow tanktop..no socks in wet sneakers.. it brings to mind rust, paint chips, those gaudy dusty statues in your grandparents dark livingroom.. all those things that were imperfect, dirty, flawed, weathered, broken .. but ultimately familiar and beautiful.This is where Mr Menesini excels.. he has the uncanny ability to dip his pen into that great subconscious that we all share... and writes the things that speak to us all. There are many themes that are common to us all.. and have been trampled into the dust by a million authors.. but JTM ventures into unclaimed territory.. and is able to pull out details of his own past that seem so familiar that you find yourself wondering if he too wasnt in that alley with you as you played with your GI JOES.. or if he too would hang out at the seven eleven trying to find somebody old enough to buy you some Marlboros... JTM is amazing that hes able to not just convince you of the beauty of the desolate .. but remind you that you too, once held these same things in reverance. I expect great things from this author.

Other Voices

John Thomas Menesini's The Last Great Glass Meat Million Is a stunning Collection of Work, JTM is nearly the poetic equivalent of Arthur Rimbaud, While he Focuses On The Depressed Small Towns of Pennsylvania, he darkly Describes The Images And Characters Which inhabit Them, I was blown away by his painterlike attention to detail and his willingness to find the hardest darkest things, a beer can strewn landscape, bums on the corners, "Little Girls With Scraped Knees" which is my favorite poem of the Collection, John Thomas Menesini (Like Rimbaud And Fritz Lang Before Him)Shows us beauty where we thought that only ugliness existed.