Machiavelli's Backyard (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780999079607)

Some of these poems are prosaic, some disturbing, some out-and-out hilarious: I like the dark sardonic tone and exquisite vernacular of gallows humor that popped right off the page. David Lohrey commands an arresting, hard won deadpan syntax entirely his own. He can be biting, toothy, sardonic and often ambiguous. I love the casual acerbic tone. He makes me think of "Dover Beach" and Jonathan Swift. He is a deadly serious (and skilled) poet, who happens also to be a very funny man. Charles Bukowski comes to mind. It is a poetry of outrage, a poetry of sadness, and a poetry of laughter. Reading "Machiavelli's Backyard" is like being invited to a garden party in a Walmart parking lot.

Author: David Lohrey
ISBN-10: 0999079603
ISBN-13: 9780999079607
Publisher: Sudden Denouement Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2017
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d