Straight Jacket Elegies
- ISBN-10
- 1944234004
- ISBN-13
- 9781944234003
- Category
- American poetry
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-10-01
Description
Alan Kaufman is the editor of the acclaimed "Outlaw Bible" series, author of the memoirs Jew Boy and Drunken Angel, as well as Matches: A Novel. His essays and writings have been published in Evergreen Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post and The Los Angeles Times.Straight Jacket Elegies evinces all of life's beautiful, sordid banality in Kaufman's blunt spoken word style. Influenced by Whitman and the Beats, New York's slam poetry movement and the infamous, confrontational readings of Cafe Babar, Kaufman takes us on a trip through the dark, underbelly of modern America. Straight Jacket Elegies is both an homage to David Lerner, and a testament of survival. It is a time capsule into the hopelessness of the era of Reagan, when epidemics stood on every street corner declaiming the falsehood of a shining city on the hill and the decaying of the American Dream. But it is also a call to arms for all the poets and lunatics and lovers in the world to speak up, to shout to the heavens, to survive by any means necessary.
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