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Somebody Please
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Publisher Price: $17.00
Publisher: Blue Arrangements
Published: Mar 27 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A poem doesn't need to be perfect, writes this self-described 'unremarkabler-in-chief, ' and in place of perfection we get far more satisfying qualities, like invention and spontaneity. Take for example the sentence-long 'The Three of Them': 'It felt really good to have another big animal in the room watching over both of them.' Did I mention these poems will disturb you? Somebody Please is subversive and transformative and awfully funny.
-Will Schutt, Author of Westerly, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
Here is a poet. To think we're all working with the same tools ...
-Lamb
Dave Barrett's brand of aphorism holds a goofy sense of the body and all its seepages. His is a world where god is a clown and we all feel that large breasted imposed upon feeling. Inhabiting flesh is our privilege on earth; this is a book where boners are juxtaposed alongside the natural and spiritual world in surprising and absurd ways, because it both is and isn't that serious sometimes.
-Niina Pollari, author of Path of Totality
A book of aphoristic wit meant to be read in bouts of coughing laughter or sung to the cold night skies.
-Graham Irvin, author of I Have a Gun
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