Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes
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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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