Slanky

Cult poet and musician Mike Doughty makes his print debut with Slanky a black-comic stroll through the demimonde of pop culture and modern urban life.. Doughty''s poems are at once absurdest and matter-of-fact; the images he conjures are thrown into high relief through cutting wordplay. In a series of prose poems about showbiz he re imagines Cookie Monster as a burned-out suicide and cheesy talk-show host Joe Franklin as a cross-dressing witness to the apocalypse. And in For Charlotte Unlisted he wrenchingly tracks the elusive memory of a faded romance.