Famous Americans (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300100037)

This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Loren Goodman's Famous Americans. Hilarious, eclectic, and bizarre, this collection takes the reader on a rollercoaster of a ride through the absurdities of American pop culture. Employing a variety of forms (from epistolary to script to interview and beyond), this work proves to be as much about exploring frameworks as it is about examining the lives of famous and not-so-famous Americans. Goodman questions our concept of what it means to be an icon: he disrupts our assumptions, creating an alternate universe in which nothing remains sacred.

Author: Loren Goodman
ISBN-10: 0300100035
ISBN-13: 9780300100037
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.82h x 6.70w x 0.28d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2003 pg. 1366
New York Times 04/20/2003 pg. 24
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2003 pg. 58
Library Journal 06/01/2003 pg. 126