A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck

by Greg Williamson

Overview

Poetry. Set up rather like an encyclopedia, and containing urgent information about pretty much everything--from the Big Bang to the second shooter on the grassy knoll--Greg Williamson's A MOST MARVELOUS PIECE OF LUCK is a collection of sonnets unlike any other. The main character, an unnamed Everyman--a salesman, a poet, a conspiracy wonk, "the last man left alive"--a (somewhat) loveable loser, gets knocked off in the ninth line of every entry and is thereby condemned to being "old-fashioned, out of step, passé" for the duration.

Though full of science, A MOST MARVELOUS PIECE OF LUCK is anything but forbidding, and though full of dead people, and inescapably dark, it also manages, somehow, to be hilariously funny.

The award-winning author of The Silent Partner and Errors in the Script is at the top of his game in this wildly inventive, formally spectacular and hugely accomplished book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904130284
Publisher:	The Waywiser Press
Publication date:	09/02/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Greg Williamson grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. His first book, The Silent Partner, was published by Storyline Press and won the Nicholas Roerich Prize in 1995. His second book, Errors in the Script, was published by Overlook Press in 2001 and was runner-up for the NYC Poets' Prize. He has received a Whiting Award, an NEA grant, and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. He teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.