The Printer's Error

By Aaron Fogel

Poetry. Both funny and serious, this second poetry collection by Aaron Fogel matches stories with joltingly non-narrative poems. It mixes traditional forms like the villanelle with counter-forms like double alliteration, nine-syllable lines, words with all the vowel-letters crushed into them ("unsynchromadice"), and words with numbers interrupting the letters ("we5re"). Fogel's poems amount to what used to be called pasquinade or menippean satire, a lower-middle class art that refuses to buy into the easy caricatures of that class. The book includes a poem about a young man named Brat who breaks a sculptural portrait of himself done by his father; a prose-poem about Yiddish; and a set of comic sketches about the mock-sorrows of academic life, family aging, and the place of low jokes in poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881163369
• ISBN13: 9781881163367
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Miami University Press
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"