Tough Luck: Poems
Todd Boss
(Author)
Description
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
Price
$15.95
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
February 26, 2019
Pages
112
Dimensions
5.4 X 0.4 X 8.0 inches | 0.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393356632
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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.
Reviews
[Boss] us[es] brilliant wordplay and portray[s] the people and landscape of his childhood in Wisconsin with clarity and hard-edged grace.
Todd Boss charms, and sometimes instructs, and sometimes simply awes the reader.--Alicia Ostriker
Boss is a poet to watch, likely to prove one of the leading voices of the next decade.
Todd Boss charms, and sometimes instructs, and sometimes simply awes the reader.--Alicia Ostriker
Boss is a poet to watch, likely to prove one of the leading voices of the next decade.
