Four Winds Press
PROJECT DETAILS
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Category: Poetry
Release Date: June 2014
Print Length: 112 pages
Trim Size: 5" x 7.5"
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FORMATS
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Paperback, $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-94023-00-5
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Ebook, $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-94023-01-2
ABOUT THE BOOK
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A highly accessible collection that combines a quirky sensibility with traditional poetic forms
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Inspired by the spirit and approach of Bertolt Brecht’s Manual of Piety, the poems of Laughing Cult often employ the structures of ballads, folksongs, and other traditional forms to create miniature sketches marked by romantic ambiguity, occultism, science fiction, and quirky angst. Full of odd situations and memorable phrases, this first collection is as cool in tone as a Lee Konitz solo and as lacking in affect as pop art.
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To shape something aesthetically charged out of the spent elements and enervated thoughts of a slowly failing society: that’s the challenge Laughing Cult has set for itself. These are two-dimensional poems for a one-dimensional age.
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Several poems previously serialized on the website Exquisite Corpse.
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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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ALSO BY KEVIN McCAFFREY: I Could Have Been More Wrong: Poems
