Slanky Paperback by Mike Doughty

Product Details

• Publisher: Soft Skull (2012-10-02)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 96 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781593765040
• Item Weight: 102.06 grams
• Dimensions: 21.01 x 13.89 x 0.71 cm

Cult poet and musician Mike Doughty makes his print debut with Slanky, a black-comic stroll through the demimonde of pop culture and modern urban life.

Doughty's poems are at once absurdest and matter-of-fact; the images he conjures are thrown into high relief through cutting wordplay. In a series of prose poems about showbiz, he re imagines Cookie Monster as a burned-out suicide, and cheesy talk-show host Joe Franklin as a cross-dressing witness to the apocalypse. And in "For Charlotte, Unlisted" he wrenchingly tracks the elusive memory of a faded romance.

About the Author

Mike Doughty is the founder the band Soul Coughing. Also an author his books include Slanky and The Book of Drugs. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.