Joe Wenderoth, Author . Verse $14 (167p) ISBN 978-0-9746353-7-8
Wenderoth's Letters to Wendy's
(2000)— irreverent, witty prose poems written on comment cards from the eponymous burger chain—racked up unheard-of sales and made the young writer a poetry-world celebrity. Wenderoth's first...
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Joe Wenderoth, Author . Wave Books $14 (79p) ISBN 978-1-933517-22-3
Best-known for his gritty and uproarious prose poetry collection Letters to Wendy's
(2000), Wenderoth began his career with two books of gimlet-eyed, world-weary, hard-hitting poetry. Now he returns to verse, favoring (as before) relatively...
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Joe Wenderoth, Author Wesleyan University Press $14.95 (84p) ISBN 978-0-8195-1226-0
This volume introduces a poet and some impressive poems in which he uses tangible imagery to depict the elusiveness of experience. ``Detailed History of the Western World'' reads, in its entirety: ``where the river gets swift/ my grandfather stops...
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Joe Wenderoth, Author Wesleyan University Press $14.95 (83p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6390-3
Reducing sentience to slumber, reason to ritual, sight to shadow, the human to the abject and the animal, Wenderoth's exquisite evocations of finely discriminated loss offer moody evasions of concrete statement, electing paradox and abstraction over
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Joe Wenderoth, Author Wave Books $14 (300p) ISBN 978-0-9703672-0-4
What kind of person is inspired by a fast-food restaurant? If this new book is any indication, it's one who is by turns worshipful, disturbing and just plain weird. Conceived as a series of comment cards to a local Wendy's, this unconventional...
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Joe Wenderoth, Author Wesleyan University Press $26 (84p) ISBN 978-0-8195-2222-1
This volume introduces a poet and some impressive poems in which he uses tangible imagery to depict the elusiveness of experience. ``Detailed History of the Western World'' reads, in its entirety: ``where the river gets swift/ my grandfather stops...
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Joe Wenderoth. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $18 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-933517-87-2
Alternating between dark comedy, fractured surrealism, and caustic satire, Wenderoth’s fourth poetry collection (after No Real Light) succeeds in being both a self-conscious indictment and a perverse celebration of the capability of language itself.
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