The Bad Guys

The Bad Guys

Winner of the 2015 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. Who are the bad guys, anyway? Which one is the good fight, anyway? In Paul Hostovskyâ€™s eighth book of poetry, The Bad Guys, there are poems about suicide bombers and high school bullies, capricious exes and ecstatic bums, fastidious drug-dealers and contemplative alcoholics, evil stenches and spiritual moms; poems about the Republicans, the mega-hospitals, the brusque and bearded anesthesiologists, and the lady who gave out pencils on Halloween. Plus a host of other unlikely, often likable, always loveable, candidates. These poems are by turns funny and poignant, formal and free verseâ€”a villanelle here, a pantoum there, and lots of loosey-goosey sonnets peppered throughout. Of Hostovskyâ€™s poetry Thomas Lux has said: â€œHostovskyâ€™s poems strike me as kinds of non-religious prayersâ€”of joy, of grief, of praise, of pain...but mostly prayers as a form of gratitude, a kind of thank you, thank you, Life!â€
Country USA
Brand Futurecycle Press
Manufacturer FutureCycle Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781938853777
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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