No Soap, Radio!

Poetry. NO SOAP, RADIO! is a carnival ride of poetry. This book is whipsmart and strange, unsettling and joyous. Bruce Cohen interweaves the comic and the absurd with heartstopping tenderness. Crackling with jubilant complexity, these poems whirl and gut punch through today's weird living--where 'most of us / are in a constant state of personal revision.' To shape his body for the beach, Tu Fu is 'all about protein.' But the vivid grace of Cohen's poems is the way he Frankensteins together giddy and goddamn! In NO SOAP, RADIO! you will find yourself the lucky winner of the most coveted prize in the midway--magnificent fun, jabbing you back into the exuberance of being fully alive.--Alex Lemon