Traffic: New and Selected Prose Poems (MVP)

Poetry. Jack Anderson is a true original. His pictures of the life we lead are satiric gems, yet so consummate an artist is he that at each thrust of his sardonic wit the reader can do nothing but laugh uproariously and demand `More, more...'--Mort Marcus, author of THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAIN POEMS. In these 37 prose poems, ranging in density from short lists to treatises on poetics and philosophy, Anderson begins with a deceptively simple voice that breaks into dark hilarity: No, you shall not be hurt. You may depart at once. All that is required is that you wear this placard reading, I am an ugly thing because I am superfluous. Currently working as a dance critic for the New York Times, Anderson has written eight previous books of poetry and seven books of dance criticism. He has read his poems at colleges and cultural centers in the U.S., Canada, England, and Australia.