Maybe the Saddest Thing: Poems

"These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems-self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward, talk back, backtrack, and scratch so hard they blow out the speakers with their complicated love for a huge cast of icons, from Pam Grier to Flavor Flav, from RuPaul to Dave Chapelle." -Erika Meitner

"Keats, too, would have admired the holy truth of Marcus Wicker, whose lyric wizardry astounds the ear." -D.A. Powell

Winner of the 2011 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by D.A. Powell, ...