The View from Jackass Hill

By Drew George

The View From Jackass Hill is a book in which the poems both eulogize and celebrate. They weep and sing. They sing of and mourn for family, friends and poets: Keats, Wyler, Shinder, Carruth, and others. Geographically, the book is rooted in the east--New York, New Hampshire, Maine--and travels west, to Colorado. Thematically, it is a delineation of loss, both personal and national: the death of loved ones, the death in war. It is, in short, a lament for the erosion of the American Dream. Yet it is a book that insists on "Making Up with Milton." "Here is a poet with a real voice, brave and original. He also rhetorically asks questions that hurt. The Jack poems are a triumph, and the use of film imagery and Visa cards attests to his post-Modernism. This is a collection of friendship and vodka, and I can only say, Enjoy !"--Robert Phillips, Series Judge

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933896663
• ISBN13: 9781933896663
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"