my lungs are a divebar

Dr. Walter Moore (BA, MFA, Ph.D.)--lauded bard who teaches in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University--presents this dive bar book of guttural knowledge. Set in rural Indiana and urban Washington (some Texas too), these are "tween" poems for the everyperson. Poems that celebrate the all-but-forgotten beautifuls . . . an awards ceremony that offers saint statues to degenerates.

Some words:

"Walter Moore's poems are a hell of a ride down a hard highway. Read this book." --Jesse Donaldson

"Hilarious, painful, and outrageous - often in the same phrase. Drawing from overheard fist fights, willfully eschewed observations, and half-a-lifetime of wrong turns turned right, Walter Moore crafts nail-sharp poems and prose explosions with a kind of screaming, laughing brilliance that is not be missed. These pages will slap your eyes until everything you see shines." --Owen Egerton

"Here is an honest underworld of poverty, booze, smoke, fighting, loving, debt, work, and redemptive friendship. The players are self-deprecating and cocky, punkish and tender, absurd and sincere as they make fun of and try to hang on to their troubled America. Walter Moore is a terrific poet whose voice is soaked in the millennial experiences of music, film, media and seeing through bullshit." --Henry Hughes

Author: Walter Moore
Publisher: Emp
Published: 04/01/2019
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9780999713846

About the Author
Moore, Walter: - walter moore: ba. mfa. phd. cbd. thc. lived in about 20 towns/cities/countries, resided on street, in car, penthouse, condo, apartments, houses between, greyhounds. poet writer performer dancer sleeper friend partner. chainsmokes but plays table tennis at a professional level, enjoys secondhand papasan chair, treats roaches like fingers-drinks pea soup out of glass, buys cheap beer & steals expensive hottubs, votes with waters and illuminates food trucks. his waterfall is an idea. teaches at oregon state university-and lives and plays in corvallis, oregon, with dog lloyd and lady friend erica.

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