Drunk Talk is enlightenment. It is designed to slap you harshly for all of your mistakes and make you die laughing as your punishment. The Get Drunk Movement wants to help you get better by getting... More > you sloshed! We keep our blurry eye on what's real and most importantly what tastes good.< Less
It's 1997 and Carbon Creed is lost. As the year passes, he wanders. From the suburbs of Chicago to the mountains of North Carolina, then all the way back again. With friends, he discovers truth,... More > pursues love, but only digs up more questions. Not yet 21, he's struggling with college, always hoping for something more profound. He wants a life of pride and meaning, not the shambling and dilapidated mockery he currently knows and hates. As the nights pass, he only gets more lost. He gets wasted, gets drunk, has a blast and falls flat on his face. Experiencing supreme highs and desperate lows, he questions life and only wants what's never guaranteed: just a bit of happiness.< Less
It's 1997 and Carbon Creed is lost. As the year passes, he wanders. From the suburbs of Chicago to the mountains of North Carolina, then all the way back again. With friends, he discovers truth,... More > pursues love, but only digs up more questions. Not yet 21, he's struggling with college, always hoping for something more profound. He wants a life of pride and meaning, not the shambling and dilapidated mockery he currently knows and hates. As the nights pass, he only gets more lost. He gets wasted, gets drunk, has a blast and falls flat on his face. Experiencing supreme highs and desperate lows, he questions life and only wants what's never guaranteed: just a bit of happiness.< Less
Did somebody say Jen Knox's poems "read like Richard Pryor with an MFA"? Yes, somebody did. (It was John Findura in Verse Magazine.) She's also been compared to comedian Sarah Silverman,... More > artist Jeff Koons, a 10-year-old who can't keep her mouth shut, and cartoonist R. Crumb. None of these equations is quite right, however. Jennifer L. Knox's work is unmistakably her own: darkly hilarious, surprisingly empathetic, utterly original. DRUNK BY NOON is the eagerly awaited sequel to Knox's first book, A GRINGO LIKE ME, which is also available from Bloof in a new edition.
Jennifer L. Knox is a three-time contributor to the Best American Poetry Series and her poems have also appeared in Great American Prose Poems and Great American Erotic Poems. For more information, see www.jenniferlknox.com.< Less
