Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Poetry. $50,000 is a long poem that allows Andrew Weatherhead the space to search everything--his cubicle, his relationships with coworkers and friends, and the worlds found in literature, sports, economics, and history--for something more meaningful than mere facts. What arises in these 116 pages is the pure drama of life: the unrelenting passage of time, the inevitable need to make a living, and the foreboding beauty of numbers, names, and friendship. In hundreds of standalone lines that align with Mike Tyson's peek-a-boo style, this long poem moves like prose but sticks with all the weight and heft of poetry.