Four Winds Press
PROJECT DETAILS
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Category: Poetry
Release Date: February 2024
Print Length: 124 pages
Trim Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
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FORMATS
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Paperback, $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-94023-19-7
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Ebook, $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-94023-20-3
ABOUT THE BOOK
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A new collection that oscillates between erudition and slapstick, from Virgil and Dante to a man who juggles his eyeballs.
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The poems of I Could Have Been More Wrong come out of nowhere to proclaim eccentric half-truths with deceptive simplicity. Declaring that the spirit of life is the spirit of play, Kevin McCaffrey delights in confronting the cacophonies of experience and trying to make them rhyme.
These verses, mostly set in traditional forms, draw energy from the joy of singing out, almost spontaneously, about the sometimes quirkily ordinary vicissitudes of being.
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Illustrations by Dana DuMont.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kevin McCaffrey
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Kevin McCaffrey has published a novel, Nightmare Therapy, and two volumes of poetry: Laughing Cult (2014) and I Could Have Been More Wrong (2024). His poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, the Trib Talk section of the Texas Tribune, and Writer’s Almanac—all of which became defunct not long after his work appeared. He lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR:
Dana DuMont is an artist, illustrator, and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. She exhibits and teaches regionally, collaborates on a broad range of creative projects, and is often found communing with dogs, ecoprinting, or repurposing thrift store media.
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ALSO BY KEVIN McCAFFREY: Laughing Cult: Poems
