Pretenders

Jeff Friedman

$16.95

Publication Date: February 4th, 2014

Publisher:

Carnegie Mellon University Press

ISBN:

9780887485794

Pages:

128

Description

Pretenders interweaves narrative, lyric, and fable in poems that tell their magical stories with revelatory rhythms and precise diction. Surreal and darkly funny, these powerful poems create a dense world full of pretense, menace, deception, and double truths—in which we are all struggling to love each other enough to survive another day.

About the Author

JEFF FRIEDMAN is the author of six collections of poetry. He has taught at Keene State College for many years. He is married to the painter Colleen Randall, and they live in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, with their dog. An avid walker, Friedman walks almost every day from two to four hours.