Jack Rabbit's High Desert Poetry - Softcover

CHANCE, DONALD

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798692361837

Publisher: Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

Jack Rabbit's High Desert Poetry by Donald W. Chance

Thirty-one poems. One desert bar. No apologies.

This is a book about the things that accumulate when you've lived long enough to stop pretending — the absurdity of aging in a body that's done keeping secrets, the crooked humor of staring down a grave and talking back, the strange comfort of being an outsider who finally stopped trying to fit in.

The poems here find philosophy on a lily pad and menace in a refrigerator. A man negotiates his burial plot and requests something warmer than a sycamore — maybe under a cathouse in New Orleans. Roses accuse their killer. A child flattens an anthill while giant hands descend from above. A helicopter wops overhead on an otherwise quiet afternoon, and Vietnam comes back whether you invited it or not.

Beat-inflected and desert-dry, the voice owes something to Bukowski and Ginsberg but belongs entirely to one man — sardonic, tender when it counts, and too honest to chase polish.

If you've ever wanted poetry that sits down next to you, orders a drink, and tells you something true — this is that book.

The neon's still on. Pull up a stool.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798692361837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 77