Tough Luck bookcover

Tough Luck

Poems

Todd Boss 

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At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-stopping view of the muscled waters below. Marriage, family, home--all come crashing down, but Todd Boss rebuilds with his trademark musicality and "a reverent gusto for representing the tactile aspects of human life" (Tony Hoagland).

Product Details

PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publish DateFebruary 26, 2019
Pages112
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780393356632
Dimensions8.0 X 5.4 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry

About the Author

Todd Boss is the author of three previous collections of poetry, most recently Tough Luck. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and other publications. Still nomadic, Boss has most recently been based in Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas.

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[Boss] us[es] brilliant wordplay and portray[s] the people and landscape of his childhood in Wisconsin with clarity and hard-edged grace.-- "The Washington Post"

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