Winner of the 2015 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. Who are the bad guys, anyway? Which one is the good fight, anyway? In Paul Hostovskyâ€™s eighth book of poetry, The Bad Guys, there are poems

The Bad Guys

Winner of the 2015 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. Who are the bad guys, anyway? Which one is the good fight, anyway? In Paul Hostovskyâ€™s eighth book of poetry, The Bad Guys, there are poems about suicide bombers and high school bullies, capricious exes and ecstatic bums, fastidious drug-dealers and contemplative alcoholics, evil stenches and spiritual moms; poems about the Republicans, the mega-hospitals, the brusque and bearded anesthesiologists, and the lady who gave out pencils on Halloween. Plus a host of other unlikely, often likable, always loveable, candidates. These poems are by turns funny and poignant, formal and free verseâ€”a villanelle here, a pantoum there, and lots of loosey-goosey sonnets peppered throughout. Of Hostovskyâ€™s poetry Thomas Lux has said: â€œHostovskyâ€™s poems strike me as kinds of non-religious prayersâ€”of joy, of grief, of praise, of pain...but mostly prayers as a form of gratitude, a kind of thank you, thank you, Life!â€
Country USA
Brand Futurecycle Press
Manufacturer FutureCycle Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781938853777
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

The Bad Guys