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Famous Americans
Contributor(s): Goodman, Loren (Author), Merwin, W. S. (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0300100035     ISBN-13: 9780300100037
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Published: April 2003
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Annotation: This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Loren Goodman's Famous Americans. Hilarious, eclectic, and bizarre, this collection takes the reader on a roller-coaster of a ride through the absurdities of American pop culture. Employing a variety of forms (from epistolary to script to interview and beyond), this work proves to be as much about exploring frame-works as it is about examining the lives of famous and not-so-famous Americans. Goodman questions our concept of what it means to be an icon: he disrupts our assumptions, creating an alternate universe in which nothing remains sacred.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2002152365
Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.7" W x 8.82" L (0.38 lbs) 96 pages
Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2003 pg. 1366
New York Times 04/20/2003 pg. 24
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2003 pg. 58
Library Journal 06/01/2003 pg. 126
 
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This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Loren Goodman's Famous Americans. Hilarious, eclectic, and bizarre, this collection takes the reader on a rollercoaster of a ride through the absurdities of American pop culture. Employing a variety of forms (from epistolary to script to interview and beyond), this work proves to be as much about exploring frameworks as it is about examining the lives of famous and not-so-famous Americans. Goodman questions our concept of what it means to be an icon: he disrupts our assumptions, creating an alternate universe in which nothing remains sacred.
 
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