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Tax-exempt? | Hardscrabble Poems Playful and rich, formally inventive, funny and wry, McFadden's poems examine American identity through the latent possibilities of language. Transforming empty spans of interstate and inconspicuous small towns into landscapes fertile with wordplay and rampant with irony, McFadden makes letters themselves rearrange and conspire against commonplaces. Kevin McFadden has published in a wide array of journals, including Denver Quarterly, Fence, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Review. He is the associate program director for the Virginia Festival of the Book. April 2008 ISBN 082033118X paper • $16.95 A volume in the seriesThe VQR Poetry Series "Kevin McFadden is a no-bards-holed word playniac." —David Kirby, author of The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems"In its approach to subject matter, the poetry of Kevin McFadden recalls that of those hard-boiled chroniclers of the American scene, writers such as Kenneth Fearing and Karl Shapiro. Yet the swiftness of McFadden's poems and their supercharged associative thinking make these earlier writers seem like dial-up to McFadden's DSL. I love the ambition, quirkiness, and technical brio of these poems. Hardscrabble is a singular debut." —David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems |
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