Poetry
The Saddest Place on Earth
- Publisher
- DC Books
- Published
- November 2012
- Pages
- 84
- Price
- $17.95
- ISBN
- 9781897190326
- Language
- English
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When Donald Rumsfeld briefed his press secretary on how to deal with the media, he said: “Begin with an illogical premise and proceed perfectly logically to an illogical conclusion…They [the media] do it all the time.” Kathryn Mockler’s new collection of poems applies Rumsfeld’s advice to powerful poetic ends. Deeply interested in American politics and the absurdity of our mediated relation to the political sphere, the beautiful and entertaining narrative poems in The Saddest Place on Earth follow absurd premises to their most logical conclusions. Here, God appears on Oprah, Hurt Feelings and Anger rent a cottage together on Lake Huron for a week in August, and the saddest place on earth is discovered in a Chinese restaurant at the end of a strip-mall. Kathryn Mockler’s approach to language and the world results in an extremely engaging, moving and often hilarious poetics of deep disorientation.
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