The Deathbed Playboy
by Philip Dacey
Category: Poetry

These poems wind together all the strands of American identity -- our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality -- and frame them in a narrative as comic as it is plaintive. Surprises in the book include cameo appearances by George Bush Florence Nightingale, as well as a take J. S. Bach that owes something to the Keystone Cops.