Almost Nothing To Be Scared Of (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

Clewell, David

ISBN 10: 0299307247 / ISBN 13: 9780299307240

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Almost Nothing To Be Scared Of (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299307247
• ISBN 13: 9780299307240
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

Full of Clewell’s distinctive blend of narrative and lyric, as well as his unabashed, idiosyncratic sense of wonder, these poems often spring from unlikely sources: Adam and Eve’s Paradisal do-over at the Jersey shore, the misguided promise of tinfoil hats, Uncle Bud on the Moon, Debbie Fuller on Pluto, debatable Bigfoot nomenclature, Richard Nixon’s social-media rejuvenation, and a Nebraska policeman’s run-in with space aliens who tell him, “We want you to believe in us—but not too much.”
           In Almost Nothing To Be Scared Of, David Clewell’s most expansive work yet, readers will discover a multiplicity of new ways to take heart—surely no small thing in a world where we’re too often asked to take what we’d rather not.

About the Author

David Clewell is the author of a dozen books of poetry, including Taken Somehow by Surprise, The Low End of Higher Things, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, Jack Ruby’s America, and Blessings in Disguise. He is a former poet laureate of Missouri and also formerly a circus laborer, professional weight guesser, and professional wrestler. He currently labors as a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Webster University in Saint Louis.