The Romance of Happy Workers

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Anne Boyer may be the most well-known younger poet without a trade book. Her reputation has been built through the internetshe keeps a popular arts and poetics blogand counts a number of critics among her fans. Vibrant, playful, and distinctive, Boyers poetry melds Thomas Hart Benton with Woody Guthrie, and introduces them to early twenty-first century poetics. Like the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dylan Thomas, reading her poems out loud will use your whole mouth and give it plenty of exercise, and her use of exclamation points and whimsical vocabulary recalls Frank OHara and Kenneth Koch, as well as Alice Notley and Bernadette Mayer. Expect this collection to get plenty of critical attention and to make a splash in some unusual places.

Author Bio

A visual artist and poet, Anne Boyer was born in Topeka, Kansas and educated at Kansas State University and Wichita State University. After a decade spent teaching in Missouri and Iowa, she recently returned to Kansas where she co-edits the poetry journal Abraham Lincoln.