Bad Behavior - Softcover

Steffen, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0983530459 ISBN 13: 9780983530459

Publisher: Brick Road Poetry Press, 2012

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Bad Behavior catalogs the range and shades of our shared humanity. Michael Steffen’s unblinking gaze is often ironic, which makes his capacity for tenderness even more impressive, as he gives voice to a flood-ruined farmer at a pawn shop, or imagines a convict’s botched execution, a worker having to listen to himself being fired in corporate double-speak, or shows us a son caring for his ill mother. Steffen imagines the past with its unfixable wrongs “stalking us, bumming cigarettes/wearing holes in its shoes,” as if to suggest it is ourselves we give to or refuse. And it is indeed ourselves these poems give back to us, newly tenacious, tenuous and aware. -Betsy Sholl, author, most recently, of Rough Cradle (Alice James Books, 2009)

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About the Author

Michael Steffen is the author of two previous poetry collections—No Good at Sea (Legible Press, 2002) and Heart Murmur (Bordighera Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals including Poetry, Potomac Review, The Ledge, Poet Lore, Rhino, and many others. In 2002, Michael was granted a Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is a Y2K graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Vermont College and currently lives in Lancaster, NY.

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