FAQ: (The New Series, Number 27)

Doller, Ben

ISBN 10: 1934103055 / ISBN 13: 9781934103050

Published by Ahsahta Press (Boise State University), Boise, ID, 2009

About this Item

First edition, soft cover, has a mild bow to the text block and covers, light bumps to the spine ends and corners, slight rubbing to the covers with some wear along the hinges and edges, a few small spots to the covers, and penciled notes to the upper half of the rear fly leaf. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good copy.

Seller Inventory # 106112

Bibliographic Details

• Title: FAQ: (The New Series, Number 27)
• Publisher: Ahsahta Press (Boise State University), Boise, ID
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934103055
• ISBN 13: 9781934103050
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Poetry. Thank you for your question. In this book of answers, Ben Doller (ne Doyle, author of Walt Whitman Award-winning book Radio, Radio) molds a speaker confident in his own impertinence to the form of an FAQ culture, participating in an all-pervasive, invasive questioning--ultimately raising questions about voice, knowledge, and our speakers/our selves. Bending but not breaking to the form, this book of poems takes a turn for the novella, busting open the prose poem and walking the dotted yellow line in the headlights of an increasingly invisible interviewer. "We ask all the wrong questions, of course. In the sharp, sad, funny poems of FAQ:, Ben Doller gives us more answers than we bargained for. He gives me some answers I wish I'd thought of myself: How do you feel? `I feel nice, I just now stepped upon a conveyor walkway. Sugar and spice'"--Rae Armantrout.

About the Author

Ben Doller (ne Doyle) is the author of the books Radio, Radio (Louisiana State University Press, 2001), selected by Susan Howe for the 2000 Walt Whitman Award; FAQ: (Ahsahta Press, 2009); and DEAD AHEAD (Fence Books, 2010). Doller co-edits the Kuhl House Contemporary Poets series and has taught in sundry states. He lives in Los Angeles with Sandra Doller (nee Miller) and their animals.