Bøger af Jon Tribble

In his stunning third collection, God of the Kitchen, poet Jon Tribble creates an unflinching account of his first job -- and an unsettling portrait of an Americana that exists under the ever-watchful eye of Colonel Sanders. These insistent, unsentimental poems grunt and heave with the bone-deep exhaustion of real work, detailing the perils of an adolescence performed in a uniform of grease and flour and sweat. At once elegy and critique, interrogation and ode, this book is dense, dazzling, and utterly necessary, revealing again and again what it means to be a body expendable, a cog in the larger machine that is Corporate America, and how the scars from such an experience linger long after the final paycheck is spent.--Stacey Lynn Brown, author of Cradlesong

One of the poems in Jon Tribble's Natural State observes that "the finest / moment of our lives may not matter at all." That's a devastating truth, but Tribble's poems about growing up in Arkansas make every moment he renders matter, and matter deeply. Natural State may be Tribble's first collection, but it's as polished, mature, and wise as most poets' fourth or fifth, and it not only matters, its publication is one of contemporary poetry's finest moments.- David Jauss, author of You Are Not Here and Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories