Maybe the Saddest Thing

<p><strong>These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems--self-aware meditations that rap and jazz their way forward talk back backtrack and scratch so hard they blow out the speakers with their complicated love for a huge cast of icons from Pam Grier to Flavor Flav from RuPaul to Dave Chapelle. --Erika Meitner</strong></p><p><strong>Keats too would have admired the holy truth of Marcus Wicker whose lyric wizardry astounds the ear. --D.A. Powell</strong></p><p>Winner of the 2011 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by D.A. Powell Marcus Wicker's <em>Maybe the Saddest Thing</em> is a sterling collection of contemporary American poems by an exciting new and emerging voice.</p>