ISBN: 0975276808 9780975276808

Category: Poetry / General

Page count: 53

<p>Brent Bechtel's first collection of poems embraces lyrical, comic, political, historic, journalistic, digital, mythical, and scientific registers with a loopy O'Hara-esque enthusiasm. This is a promising debut from a poet who seems intent on releasing the personal pronoun from the degraded discourses of mass culture, and who manages to find sincerity and humor in types of language that usually convey their opposites. --Damian Judge Rollison, University of Virginia</p><p>As the title suggests, this is a poetry of honesty, created in the tradition of Neruda, to round up and to oppose the world's injustice. This reader was moved and found the rewards to be great. --Simon Perchik</p><p><br></p>