Slanky

About this book

Cult poet and musician Mike Doughty makes his print debut with Slanky a black-comic stroll through the demimondes of pop culture and modern urban life. Doughty&;s poems are at once absurdist and matter-of-fact; the images he conjures are thrown into high relief through cutting wordplay. In a series of prose poems about showbiz he reimagines Cookie Monster as a burned-out suicide and cheesy talk-show host Joe Franklin as a cross-dressing witness to the apocalypse. And in For Charlotte Unlisted &; he wrenchingly tracks the elusive memory of a faded romance.