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In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked "What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose." Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work? Does "chuffed" mean pleased or displeased? What if the generations of Adam had mothers? Through her signature fusion of formal innovation and lyricism, Holbrook delivers what we've been waiting for.

Susan Holbrook is the author of three poetry books, including Joy...

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Susan Holbrook: Susan Holbrook’s poetry books are the Trillium-nominated Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House 2009), Good Egg Bad Seed (Nomados 2004) and misled (Red Deer 1999), which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. She lives in Leamington, Ontario and teaches North American literatures and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She is co-editor of The Letters of Gertrude...

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What Is Poetry
(a twelve-tone poem)

trite yap show
rosy twit heap
posterity haw
a wept history
it’s yawp rot, eh
a wisher potty
a power shitty
a whitey sport

poetry is what
whips yo tater
pets it awry, oh
oh, twisty pear
two hearts yip
it’s paw theory

hi! try wet soap

ear whist typo
ape with story
or what ye spit
or what yeps it

throaty wipes
or what I types

Without You

I wander lonely as a clod
in a bondless ble sky.
I’m living in...

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  • PublisherCoach House Books
  • Publication date2016
  • ISBN 10 1552453286
  • ISBN 13 9781552453285
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages88
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