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A Night in Duluth

by Joe Weil

NYQ Books

Paperback/Poetry 108 pages English Sep 19, 2016

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A Night in Duluth is an uncertain and often tongue-in-cheek dream in which the voice of the poet makes due, speaks to what is both lost and found--to the confusion of being in an American oligarchy where poverty is growing as fast as private prisons and every bowl of soup is likely to contain a fly. Weil imagines this Duluth as a sort of dark night of the soul in which hope and cynicism can be erased as easily as grease paint from the face of a performer. There are moments of tenderness and respite, but the surreal presence of the dead informs almost all the poems and the idea of pratfall, and dead pan, the acts of making due in a diminished life and surviving by a kind of comic-tragic shtick is all pervasive. Weil considers this his most difficult and honest book. It is a puppet theater in which most of the audience is comprised of ghosts
Author:
Joe Weil
Publisher:
NYQ Books
Publication Date:
Sep 19, 2016
Number of pages:
108 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/Poetry
ISBN-10:
1630450278
ISBN-13:
9781630450274