Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession and the Gilded Age

Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age
Edited by Alan Parry & Karen Pierce Gonzalez

A century after The Great Gatsby, this bold poetry anthology refuses to bow to nostalgia. Beautiful Little Fools is a fiercely original collection that interrogates glamour, obsession, class, and myth through the crackling lens of contemporary poetry.

Brought to you by The Broken Spine, this modern poetry collection reimagines Fitzgerald’s flawed classic not as sacred text, but as cultural artefact—ripe for dismantling and reconstruction. The poems here don’t cling to Gatsby’s coattails, they slit the seams, steal the thread, and stitch something new.

Featuring a chorus of diverse poetic voices, this independent publishing triumph pulls the mask off the American Dream and dances in the ashes of the Gilded Age. From speakeasy hedonism to immigrant struggle, from green lights to broken glass, these poems expose the emotional and political costs of a society built on surface.

For wide readers of contemporary poetry, cultural commentary, and those tired of polite verse, Beautiful Little Fools delivers razor-edged insight wrapped in velvet.