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(soft cover/22 pp.)
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“
John Trause is unique: a classicist who loves pop. His poems capture
our desire to mock and at the same learn every juicy detail of
pseudo-celebrity (Edie Sedgwick, Doris Duke, Gov. McGreevey) with all the
classical style of Plato writing about Atlantis. He is our
generation's undiscovered T.S. Eliot.”
—David Silverman, author of Typo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars (Soft Skull Press, 2007).
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Don't trust the adverb in the title. You never can tell if John is serious or not. His deeply shallow poems are simultaneously extravagant and poker-faced.”
—Mark Swartz, author of Instant Karma (City Lights Books, 2002) and H2O (Soft Skull Press, 2006).
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These poems are the ideal mixture of gravitas and fun. Trause is able to encompass doubt, and art, the Holy Land, celebrity and much more in these refined lyrics. The spirit of play moves through even the most serious of these poems.”
—Matthew Rohrer, author of Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007).
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