Wicked, Excellently, Poems by Brent Terry
Riffing
with wordplay, the rollicking poems of Brent Terry's Wicked, Excellently
pulse with energy, turning our perceptions of the world upside down even as
they make us laugh:
One moment
your bumper sticker says Surrealism Rules!
The next--surrealism rules.
Terry's poems move at a breathless pace, staying one step ahead of the reader as they make their profound, madcap turns.
"Readers of Brent Terry's Wicked, Excellently will admire, as I do, his capacity for exclamatory delight and spontaneous joy, his ability to produce poems that transcend their origins as linguistic stunts, and his wickedly cool sense of humor. Pick up this book and prepare yourself for an excellent adventure."--David Lehman
"Brent Terry runs with skateboarding silver centipedes, Devo-named whippets and urban bunnies in these God-clobbered poems. Wicked, Excellently is a Christmas train wreck complete with sleighbells, a banging tambourine over lunch, a mansion built from wedding-cake brimming with the skulls of grandiose cabbages. A surreal obelisk to letterish men of yore. A freestyle pillow book of tumblewed paramours. How lovely the afternoons here." --Reb Livingston
Brent Terry is the author of the chapbook yesnomaybe (Main Street Rag Press, 2001). His poems, book reviews and articles on distance running have appeared in a wide variety of publications. A track and cross country coach at Eastern Connecticut University, Terry lives in Storrs, Connecticut.
ISBN: 978-1933456881, 108 pages, $17.00