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.
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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.
Doughty\'s poems are at once absurdest and matter-of-fact; the images he conjures are thrown into high relief through cutting wordplay.
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