My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave - Softcover

Kass, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936873672 ISBN 13: 9781936873678

Publisher: Dzanc Books, 2014

Synopsis

It's hard to be a teacher. Hard to be a father. Harder still to be a husband. How do you survive? You look for joy everywhere you can. You write poems about those moments to keep them alive in your breast. These poems represent hope for a better tomorrow.

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About the Author

Jeff Kass is the author of Knuckleheads, a finalist for Foreword Reviews Best Short Fiction Collection of 2011, and several chapbooks. He currently teaches Creative Writing and Tenth Grade English at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor MI and directs the Literary Arts Program at Ann Arbor’s Teen Center, The Neutral Zone, where he founded and continues to direct The VOLUME Youth Poetry Project; The VOLUME Summer Institute; The Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam; Poetry Night in Ann Arbor; Red Beard Press; and the performance poetry troupe Ann Arbor Wordworks. He was the Ann Arbor Grand Slam Poetry Champion in 1999 and 2000 and the runner-up in 2001 as well as the Champion at the inaugural Ann Arbor Book Festival Poetry Slam in 2004. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Ann Arbor Book Festival. This is his first poetry collection.

Review

Praise for My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave:

"My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave, besides winning the all-time award for the title you can't turn away from, is a raucous and unflinching ode to the tender and the quirky, one man's hurtle verse-first into a life that the rest of us can only hope to live." — Patricia Smith

About this edition

• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1936873672
• ISBN 13: 9781936873678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112