cover image FAMOUS AMERICANS

FAMOUS AMERICANS

Loren Goodman, . . Yale Univ., $24.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-300-10003-7

This year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize hails from Wichita, Kans., and currently lives in Kobe, Japan. His relentlessly sent-up American idols include everyone from Max Von Sydow to Ben Franklin ("1731: Fornicates."), and everything from "Blue vs. Gruyère" to thank you notes from Japanese students and "a ton of vibes from Jennifer and Yun-Su."