num_pages: 304
description: Its the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished the unemployment rate is at its highest in years and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile somewhere in the Midwest Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired statuesque charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars Americas most prestigious creative writing program to which Loudermilk has recently been accepted for his excellence in poetry.Loudermilk however has never written a poem in his life.Wickedly entertaining beguiling layered and sly Loudermilk is a social novel for our time: a comedy of errors that deftly examines class gender and inheritance and subverts our pieties about literature authorship art making and the institutions that sustain them.
language: English
title: Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World
publisher: Soft Skull Press