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Adventures of the Minor Poet
American poet David Starkey's Adventures of the Minor Poet was originally published by a small press in Wales. Although it has been out of print for years, the book has become something of an underground classic on both sides of the Atlantic. This new edition from Artamo Press includes the best work from the original edition as well as a significant selection of new poetry. As titles like "The Minor Poet Watches Cable TV with the Ghost of Marianne Moore" and “The Minor Poet Writes to a Friend Whose Work Is More Successful Than His Own” suggest, the poems in this collection are sardonic, wistful and sometimes quite moving. David Starkey's work is polished, bold, intelligent without “smelling of oil,” as the French say. He takes unflinching looks at scholars in despair and on those with identities torn by America's culture wars, never forgetting to look deeply into himself. In this volume, Starkey gives us an especially endearing speaker, one who evokes the immense pathos of bargain bins, and who reminds us of the enduring magical potential in the term Master of Fine Arts.
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