Losers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299359249)

Vendor: Colin Pope
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$17.95
$17.95
$17.95
Subtotal: $17.95
WR Book House

Losers

$17.95

Losers

$17.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

Class consciousness and contradictions percolate throughout Losers, Colin Pope's third collection. Highly personal, these poems acknowledge the damage wrought on underprivileged populations while celebrating a working-class background.

Dishwasher, delivery guy, ne'er-do-well, paper boy--the characters who populate this volume are not de facto failures or screwups but rather people caught within societally imposed definitions that subtract uniqueness while racing for the lowest common denominator. "I'm gonna die here" is less a lament than a celebration of place, of knowledge, of self-confidence, because "I'm gonna live here first."

Infused with dignity, with humanity, with the compassion born out of seeing the worst in people and still seeing them as people, Losers thumbs its nose at other folks' labels. A celebration of postindustrial, rural America, this book is a paean to anyone thought undesirable and highlights the advantages (and disadvantages) imposed by geography, beauty, status, wealth, and opportunity.

Author: Colin Pope
ISBN-10: 0299359247
ISBN-13: 9780299359249
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2026
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
By Colin Pope
By Colin Pope
x

Colin Pope is the author of two previous collections, Prayer Book for the New Heretic and Why I Didn't Go to Your Funeral. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Slate, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Blackbird, AGNI, Copper Nickel, and Poem-a-Day, among others, and he has received two Academy of American Poets prizes. He is the assistant director of creative writing at Northwestern University and is on the advisory boards of the literary journals RHINO and TriQuarterly. He is a native Adirondacker, currently living in Chicago.

Recently Viewed Products