Somebody Please

Dave Barrett

ISBN 13: 9798234008473

Published by Blue Arrangements, 2026

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'A poem doesn't need to be perfect,' writes this self-described 'unremarkabler-in-chief,' and in place of perfection we get far more satisfying qualities, like invention and spontaneity. Take for example the sentence-long 'The Three of Them': 'It felt really good to have another big animal in the room watching over both of them.' Did I mention these poems will disturb you Somebody Please is subversive and transformative and awfully funny.'Will Schutt, Author of Westerly, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition'Here is a poet. To think we're all working with the same tools .'Lamb'Dave Barrett's brand of aphorism holds a goofy sense of the body and all its seepages. His is a world where god is a clown and we all feel 'that large breasted imposed upon feeling'. Inhabiting flesh is our privilege on earth; this is a book where boners are juxtaposed alongside the natural and spiritual world in surprising and absurd ways, because it both is and isn't that serious sometimes. 'Niina Pollari, author of Path of Totality'A book of aphoristic wit meant to be read in bouts of coughing laughter or sung to the cold night skies.'Graham Irvin, author of I Have a Gun.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Somebody Please
• Publisher: Blue Arrangements
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798234008473
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 203W x 127H x 5D millimeters 203 millimeters width by 127 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 105 grams

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Synopsis

"A poem doesn't need to be perfect," writes this self-described 'unremarkabler-in-chief, ' and in place of perfection we get far more satisfying qualities, like invention and spontaneity. Take for example the sentence-long 'The Three of Them': 'It felt really good to have another big animal in the room watching over both of them.' Did I mention these poems will disturb you? Somebody Please is subversive and transformative and awfully funny."

-Will Schutt, Author of Westerly, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

"Here is a poet. To think we're all working with the same tools ..."

-Lamb

"Dave Barrett's brand of aphorism holds a goofy sense of the body and all its seepages. His is a world where god is a clown and we all feel "that large breasted imposed upon feeling". Inhabiting flesh is our privilege on earth; this is a book where boners are juxtaposed alongside the natural and spiritual world in surprising and absurd ways, because it both is and isn't that serious sometimes. "

-Niina Pollari, author of Path of Totality

"A book of aphoristic wit meant to be read in bouts of coughing laughter or sung to the cold night skies."

-Graham Irvin, author of I Have a Gun