The truth squad / Dennis Schmitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmitz, Dennis, 1937-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

69 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2002]

Summary:

Alongside "truth is stranger than fiction," Dennis Schmitz suggests "the truth is all in the pieces." In "Truth Squad "humor abounds, and funky, overstated characters -- such as grafitti artists and poetry guerillas -- are tested by weird circumstances. Their dilemmas are anecdotal and absurd like early two-reel comedies. The book's humor is to rescue, to re-direct the effects of "the storm / against yourself,"and to disrupt us enough to reveal who and what we really are. This is energetic new work from the Poet Laureate of Sacramento.

Dennis Schmitz is the author of seven books of poetry and has received numerous awards for his work. He taught for more than 30 years at California State University at Sacramento.

Contents:

The truth squad

Rumplestiltskin

Deficit

Dumpster-diving

Dances

Paradise

Because the eye is a flower whose root is the hand

Wanting definition

Frontier

Grossier's "The passenger pigeons"

Yosemite: 40th anniversary climb

The alien corn

Iowa Gothic

The text

Plums

Crabgrass

Farney's sister

Brothers

Hands

Klauer's dog

The three-legged dog

Abbott's lagoon

Egoist

Carmel

Base metal

Those condemned by appetite to eat themselves

Temporal aspects of dying as a non-scheduled status passage

The frog

The Gregor Samsa syndrome.

ISBN:

1556591829

OCLC:

49225333