The Low End of Higher Things

by David Clewell

Overview

Comic books, beatnik kitsch, and all that jazz.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299185749
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	03/18/2003
Series:	Wisconsin Poetry Series , #1
Edition description:	1
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David Clewell is the author of six poetry collections, including Blessings in Disguise, a winner in the National Poetry Series, and Now We’re Getting Somewhere, 1994 winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Clewell teaches writing and literature at Webster University in St. Louis. He has been named Poet Laureate of Missouri.

Editorial Reviews

David Clewell may be the most open-armed and open-hearted poet writing well in English these days. Clewell's is the art of the embrace, encompassing and warming his subjects. In The Low End of Higher Things, as in his six previous collections, he embraces the jetsam of American culture, taking (as the title suggests) what is lowly and connecting it with higher (and deeper) things. — Chris King

The Washington Post

"David Clewell is an exuberant, inexhaustible poet and an insider on such diverse American arcana as forgotten Hollywood actors, flying saucers, CIA shenanigans, comic books, cereal favors, beatnik kitsch, and jazz. His unstoppable narrative energy and his multi-layered curiosity are almost enough to drive this poet out to the far right side of the page. His elegy for a federal agent who jumped out a window on LSD is alone worth the price of this collection of Clewell at his best, his most Clewellian."—Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States

"If you have been a fan of David Clewell’s poems for twenty-five years or more, you know his voice is inimitable, and you celebrate every occurrence. If you are encountering him now for the first time, what are you waiting for, you lucky one? Open the book!"—Naomi Shihab Nye

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