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As long as you're happy
poems
By Myers, Jack Elliott
- ISBN
- 978-0-91530-881-1
- Publisher
- Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 1986.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 1986
This poet strikes us half as a sad man trying to look happy and half as a sad man too tired to be anything but sad. Initially, his tone has something of the standup comic, but as he proceeds the monologue becomes relentlessly bleak. Sloppy surrealism ("Dogs give commands to me in one syllable,/ ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
