num_pages: 81
description: Dacey here ranges widely in tones, strategies and forms, a diversity appropriate for one who characteristically meditates on American identity. In these poems, Dacey winds together many strands - our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality - and frames them in a narrative as comic as it is plangent. Surprises in the book include cameo appearances by George Bush and Florence Nightingale as well as a take on J. S. Bach that owes something to the Keystone Cops.
language: English
title: The Deathbed Playboy: Poems
titlecomplete: The Deathbed Playboy: Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Univ of Washington Pr