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Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year: Poems

Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year: Poems

Henn, Steve

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ISBN10: 1939674077
ISBN13: 9781939674074
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Nov 18 2016
Pages: 106
Language: English

Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year is Steve Henn's third book of verse. As in his previous volumes, Henn does hand-to-hand combat with the absurdity of daily life, including our experiences with the pervasive media--Facebook, cell phones, Internet ads, movies, self-promotion, and dreams. These new poems are born of the same live performance energy that produced his first two books. Henn dedicates this book to his four children, whose drawings and paintings serve effectively as illustrations. The book might earn a PG rating if poetry publications were voluntarily policed by, say, the Academy of American Poets. It tells a father's story in a form that a child may begin to comprehend, but it speaks even more powerfully to adults. Every confession, every raw dream, nudges us toward recognition--not asking us to acknowledge our collusion, but inviting us to empathize. Henn's poems are at once critical and confessional, often using dramatic irony to turn the critical spotlight on the speaker. Yet he resists the compulsion to blame. The poems lead to laughter and release, and in this sense they are expressions of patience, with himself and with other people. Like Charles Bukowski or Allen Ginsberg, Henn broadens and deepens our feelings, opening the way to a humane existence in an absurd world.

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