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Synopsis
A Mouth in California, Graham Foust's fourth book of poetry, uses the ironies and anxieties of contemporary life as a foil for mordant and sometimes violent humor. Through mangled aphorisms, misheard song lyrics, and off-key phrasing, Foust creates a unique idiom of tragicomic pratfalls, a ballet of falling down. Yet the elasticity of Foust's language repels the stiff-necked adversaries of thought: "what's the wrong way to break / that brick of truth back into music?"
Publisher information
- Publisher: Flood Editions
- ISBN: 9780981952017
- Number of pages: 71
- Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 12 mm
- Weight: 142g
- Languages: English
