"And for God's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction too, stupid." -John Waters
Meteoric as pop songs, as fist-fights between best friends, Ben Kopel's poems blaze out like declarations of love and vendetta spray-painted on overpasses. VICTORY is raw and tender as a crying-jag, while being full of a new savagery's swagger and grace. –Dean Young Learn More
We Are All Good if They Try Hard Enough, the sincere and funny debut book, balances media-saturated satire with Martin Buber-strength notions of care and consideration. The poems ask big questions like WHY? and when the book is through, it suggests an answer: let's be friends.
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Called "a ranting comic showman and a literary provocateur" by The New York Times, Taylor Mali writes eloquently and entertainingly about his experiences in and out of the middle school classroom. Learn More