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Laughing Cult
Kevin McCaffrey
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Description for Laughing Cult
Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
Inspired by the spirit and approach of Bertolt Brecht's Manual of Piety, the poems of Laughing Cult often employ the structures of ballads, folksongs, and other traditional forms to create miniature sketches marked by romantic ambiguity, occultism, science fiction, and quirky angst. As cool in tone as a Lee Konitz solo and as lacking in affect as pop art, this first collection includes numerous poems that have appeared on the Exquisite Corpse website. To shape something aesthetically charged out of the spent elements and enervated thoughts of a slowly failing society: that's the challenge Laughing Cult has set ... Read more
Inspired by the spirit and approach of Bertolt Brecht's Manual of Piety, the poems of Laughing Cult often employ the structures of ballads, folksongs, and other traditional forms to create miniature sketches marked by romantic ambiguity, occultism, science fiction, and quirky angst. As cool in tone as a Lee Konitz solo and as lacking in affect as pop art, this first collection includes numerous poems that have appeared on the Exquisite Corpse website. To shape something aesthetically charged out of the spent elements and enervated thoughts of a slowly failing society: that's the challenge Laughing Cult has set ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Four Winds Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
San Francisco, United States
ISBN
9781940423005
SKU
V9781940423005
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Ref
99-15
About Kevin McCaffrey
Kevin McCaffrey is the author of the horror novel Nightmare Therapy. He works at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Reviews for Laughing Cult
Two poems from Laughing Cult have been featured on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor, "At the very lengthy meeting" (May 14, 2014), and "No problem" (June 6, 2014).