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Homesick (Penguin Poets)

by Roger Fanning

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ISBN13: 9780142000526
ISBN10: 0142000523
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Roger Fanning is a junk magician. In Homesick, his second book, he repeatedly drains popular culture of its pop and fizz and transforms it into poems that are substantial, surprising, and evocative. In "Lord of the Jungle, Larva-Nude," Tarzan stands revealed as an adolescent, self-conscious about his lack of body hair. In "Besides Dracula's Castle a Black Pool"-a sly critique of capitalism's excess-Nosferatu becomes "a slender old bachelor with his hair slicked back." For all his humor and ingenuity, Fanning never loses touch with the ache that underlies our daily lives.

"[Fanning] can keep life from being a long zombie convention. . . . Anyone not a bonehead should read this book." (Mary Karr)

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Kelly Arbor, January 24, 2009 (view all comments by Kelly Arbor)
a wonderful and surprising book.

not at all the self-indulgent triptrap so much poetry has fallen prey to.
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ISBN:
9780142000526
Author:
Fanning, Roger
Publisher:
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Location:
New York
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Single Author / American
Copyright:
2002
Series:
Poets, Penguin
Series Volume:
107-210
Publication Date:
20020326
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
64
Dimensions:
8.36x5.54x.23 in. .19 lbs.
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