Synopses & Reviews
Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention, with poems in the
Paris Reviewand
The New Yorkerand a series in
Poetry. His first collection, set in the Midwest, alternately features a childhood Wisconsin farm, the record-breaking storm that destroyed it, and the turbulent marriage that recalls it. Love and wonder mingle in these lines--
from 'The Hush of the Very Good'
- You can tell by how he lists
- to let her
- kiss him, that the getting, as he gets
- it,
- is good.
- It"s good in the sweetly salty,
- deeply thirsty way that a sea-fogged
- rain is good after a summer-long
- bout
- of inland drought.
Synopsis
Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention, with poems in the and and a series in . His first collection, set in the Midwest, alternately features a childhood Wisconsin farm, the record-breaking storm that destroyed it, and the turbulent marriage that recalls it. Love and wonder mingle in these lines.
Synopsis
Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention, with poems in the Paris Reviewand The New Yorkerand a series in Poetry. His first collection, set in the Midwest, alternately features a childhood Wisconsin farm, the record-breaking storm that destroyed it, and the turbulent marriage that recalls it. Love and wonder mingle in these lines.
Synopsis
"Todd Boss is going to be a poetry all-star....He can make any rhyme feel like a concealed weapon."--Sherman Alexie
About the Author
Todd Boss, director of external affairs at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. His book Yellowrocketwon the 2009 Midwest Booksellers" Choice Award for Poetry.