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Synopsis
“Tough Luck is funny and philosophical and wry and large-hearted, and it’s our great good luck to have it.”―Beth Ann Fennelly
At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-stopping view of the muscled waters below. Marriage, family, home―all come crashing down, but Todd Boss rebuilds with his trademark musicality and “a reverent gusto for representing the tactile aspects of human life” (Tony Hoagland).
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About the Author
Todd Boss is the author of the poetry collections Yellowrocket and Pitch, both honored by the Midwest Bookseller’s Choice Award, and most recently of the poetry collection Tough Luck. He is the founding artistic director of Motionpoems, a film company in Minneapolis.
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“[Boss] us[es] brilliant wordplay and portray[s] the people and landscape of his childhood in Wisconsin with clarity and hard-edged grace.”
- The Washington Post
“Todd Boss charms, and sometimes instructs, and sometimes simply awes the reader.”
- Alicia Ostriker
“Boss is a poet to watch, likely to prove one of the leading voices of the next decade.”
- Library Journal
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 0393356639
- ISBN 13 9780393356632
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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