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“The thing that really strikes me about these mostly very short poems is the economy of language McLean employs. He gets it. He understands it. He knows that it doesn’t take a very long knife to kill... just a sharp one.”
– John Yamrus, author of Can’t Stop Now! “Laughing At Funerals lays bare the putrefying vestiges of morals and ideals, hearts, hopes and things. The world is bad and you’ve got to write yourself out. Even if madness here is no longer a country to be feared. This is beyond that and even hell can be a joke.”
– Dom Gabrielli, author of The Eyes of a Man “Once again David McLean has captured the voice of the disaffected and disaffection itself in a finely nuanced collection of poetry, Laughing At Funerals. In this volume, McLean’s most accessible, the reader is thrust into the surrealistic reality of existence and painful refractory ennui. McLean is at once melancholy and profound, an extraordinary writer with endless elegance, grace and talent, and a style quite his own. This is your first mandatory literary purchase of 2010. And if it is your only one, count yourself lucky”
– Jack Henry, author of With the Patience of Monuments | “David McLean’s new poetry collection laughing at funerals is the literary equivalent of spitting in the face of humanity. Not just spitting, but reaching deep into the branches of his lungs to hawk up a long, greasy booger. Rather than merely plant that booger on the tip of our sharp noses, McLean digs his fingers into our face, peels back the flesh to expose the glistening skull, then digs even deeper in search of that mysterious ‘i’ that animates this ghostly flesh trap.”
– Wolfgang Carstens, author of Crudely Mistaken For Life “If LAUGHING AT FUNERALS does nothing else it provides us all with a text to read on the eve of the apocalypse. It is a series of frenzies meant to be performed against the frenzy. A rage before the serenity of nothing.”
– Todd Moore, author of The Riddle of The Wooden Gun “David McLean has a true poet’s heart. There is not a smidgen of sentimentality to be found in McLean’s poems. Instead of cheapening life and love with maudlin clichés, David McLean shows the value of life and love by writing with brutally accurate observations and merciless truth... Like the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos, David McLean cajoles and celebrates death realizing that the two are happily married. He is one of the most consistently brilliant poets I have ever had the pleasure to read. His poems are sap and bullshit free. They should be carved on tombstones.”
– Misti Rainwater-Lites, Instant Pussy |
Laughing At Funerals reviewed:
By Todd Moore
| By Dom Gabrielli
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Laughing At Funerals
$
20.00
Poetry by David McLean
98 pages
$15.50 + shipping
ISBN: 9780981184456
Epic Rites Press, March 2010
98 pages
$15.50 + shipping
ISBN: 9780981184456
Epic Rites Press, March 2010
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