Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes

by Cheryl Dumesnil

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The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake. The shadows here are many--cancer, poverty, a lost love, famine, suicide, war, an ever-encroaching existential angst. But so are the saving graces--a drag queen waitress whose "painted-on eyebrows arched like a bridge / toward starlight," "strawberries / grown fat...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822964317

ISBN13:9780822964315

Release Date:October 2016

Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press

Length:104 Pages

Weight:0.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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