Maybe I should point out that Steve Martin's debut album was called Let's Get Small. Maybe that might explain his presence in the poem below. Sort of.
Or maybe not.
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- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Paul - Got to look at your new chapbook last night. IT is ravishing. I think I know some of those poems...I loved it. Now I'm looking forward even more to the next book!
Thanks!
I love Let's Get Small," and find it to be almost completely unique in that it's primary tactic in being funny is playing the part of being a bad comedian. You know, how he keeps talking about how the show's going to start soon, sight gags (on record!), prat falls, banjos. It takes a genious to make bad comedy funny.
Which makes Billy Collins the Steve Martin of poetry?
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