Wenderoth's poetry features Terse and haunting lyrics that mark a new intimacy with the world

Disfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting lyrics expose the irreducible contradictions of living, wherein the talking-singing, the whole talking-/singing ball of yarn, begins to unravel. Deceptively casual in tone, these poems offer startling confrontations with the unoriginal/oblivion, with the contrived delicacy/of what is emptied and kept. Joe Wenderoth sees fortune as the mute history of events proceeding toward the ultimate security; his poems arise from disfortune, from the need Just to sing the song that's kept you/quiet/all this time. This book is a rare occurrence, marking not only a new intimacy with the world, but also a remembering of the determined motion of intimacy itself.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 08/01/1995
ISBN: 9780819512260
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.60w x 0.28d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/31/1995