{"product_id":"americanmental-paperback","title":"AmericanMental - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMike Jurkovic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a poet making known the complaints that bounce around unexpressed inside our own heads, a kind of Larry David with line breaks. In a rare upbeat moment, he writes, \"\u003cem\u003eof course there's people\/being born but\u003c\/em\u003e\" And it's in that \u003cem\u003ebut\u003c\/em\u003e that the Jurkovic vision resides. In his universe, something's gone missing, the wife controls the Ambien, and Dylan was wrong. Still, there's a bit of that Nobel Laureate running throughout \u003cem\u003eAmerican Mental\u003c\/em\u003e, a kind of \u003cem\u003esub-Canadian worldsick blues, \u003c\/em\u003ethat propels the reader with great velocity, and wordplay, and original insight through its pages.\u003c\/p\u003e-Tim Tomlinson is the author of \u003cem\u003eRequiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire\u003c\/em\u003e (poems), and \u003cem\u003eThis Is Not Happening to You\u003c\/em\u003e (stories). He is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop and teaches in New York University's Global Liberal Studies. Mike Jurkovic is either the William Carlos Williams, Allan Ginsberg, or Charles Bukowski of the Hudson Valley. Reflecting their influences, his work is drawn from his unique blueprint, the poems built of his singularly barbed brick and mortar. Grounded in reality, \u003cem\u003eAmericanMental \u003c\/em\u003espews beauty, humor, and rage at the sublimely monotonous. One envisions the poet spent, under a Bodhi tree with a tall drink - a blue Buddha shaking his head in disbelief, as \"\u003cem\u003eall the psychosis slides east on Thursdays\" \u003c\/em\u003ewatching \"\u003cem\u003eus thicken with laughing eyes\u003c\/em\u003e.\" Read this \"\u003cem\u003ecry from the fist,\" \u003c\/em\u003ethrow back your head and shout!-Janet Hamill's, \u003cem\u003eA Map of the Heavens: Selected Poems 1975-2007\u003c\/em\u003e, was recently published by Spyuten Duyvil AmericanMental gives us a poet at the top of his game. Iconoclastic impulse wrestles progressive idealism in the town of shit-lorn. Here we confront pettiness, inequality \u0026amp; desperation as felt by many who've had the misfortune of believing in that American Dream: success for all \u0026amp; everyone, only to find it doesn't exist. That's not to say life is perfect elsewhere. No. These poems challenge hypocrisy \u0026amp; injustice wherever found. Crack the cover - a rousing ride awaits!-Roger Aplon, Editor\/Publisher Waymark - \u003cem\u003eVoices of the Valley; \u003c\/em\u003eauthor \u003cem\u003eBarcelona Diary, It's Only TV, \u003c\/em\u003e and, from Unsolicited Press: \u003cem\u003eMustering What's Left - Selected \u0026amp; New Poems 1976 - 2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 78\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377602453811,"sku":"9781952411151","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/AIFYpufTEr9781952411151.webp?v=1779325961","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/americanmental-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}