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Saint Friend
Contributor(s): Adamshick, Carl (Author)

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 ISBN: 1940450039     ISBN-13: 9781940450032
Publisher: McSweeney's
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General
Dewey: 811
Series: McSweeney's Poetry
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6.17" W x 8.61" L (0.50 lbs) 65 pages
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents
Awards: Oregon Book Awards, Finalist, Poetry, 2016
Review Citations: Booklist 10/15/2014 pg. 12
Publishers Weekly 02/02/2015
 
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Publisher Description:
Saint Friend is that rare book that speaks in the voice of a generation. The voice comes from an acclaimed young poet who, after working years in obscurity, was fêted with the prestigious Walt Whitman Award for his first collection. This, his second book, is a freewheeling explosion of celebrations, elegies, narratives, psychologically raw persona pieces (one in the voice of Amelia Earhart), and a handful of punchy lyric poems with a desperate humor. It is, as the title suggests, a book exalting love among friends in our scattered times. Opening with a five-page anthem called "Layover," it begins:

They keep paging Kenneth Koch at the airport.
Someone should let the announcer know
he is dead, that there is no city he can go to,
that no one is expecting him. Once, I applied
to be a horse . . .
 
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