![]() ![]() Also, I was going to try and illustrate this post with a photo of a clown but I seriously couldn't find a single one that wouldn't give you, and me, nightmares. Suffice to say, my obsessing has been officially upgraded from low-level to high-level. Read the whole poem here. The Blinds - Adam Sternbergh - Google Books Helping maintain an uneasy peace in The Blinds, a rural Texas community of criminal misfits who were given a chance at a new life after having. But if you haven't, here are the opening lines:Īnd it goes from there and is like a crazed beautiful hybrid of Robert Frost and Jack Handey and is absolutely fantastic. Adam Sternbergh is New York magazine’s culture editor, as well as the author of the Edgar Awardnominated novels Shovel Ready and Near Enemy. But even so! Maybe everyone's already read this poem and fallen as hard in love with it as I have. Later, I Googled the poem and it turns out it ran in The New Yorker in 2009, which, as my wife said, is a little like discovering some awesome new band, then finding out they played on SNL four years ago. ![]() I finally tracked down and bought two of Dunn's books today, one a career-spanning collection titled "What Goes On," and one a more recent volume, "Here And Now." I bought the latter solely on the strength of flipping it open randomly to this poem, "If A Clown," which I immediately loved. Adam Sternbergh is a genre-bender of the highest caliber. ![]()
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