Poetry. With a touch of comic absurdity, these metaphor-fueled poems look at what it means to be human in a culture of alienation and contradiction. EARTHLING both celebrates and critiques this brave new world and its elusive, Hollywood-tinged reality, defying aesthetic categorization as it stokes the fire of cultural discourse and provides a guiding light for our journey through the elements of a hypermodern world. "Steve Healey's dazzling first book of poems, EARTHLING, will leave you reeling. Poem after poem, bold imagination coupled with intense passion sets this book ablaze. His very unique sense of humor adds to the delight"--James Tate.

Author City: MINNEAPOLIS, MN USA

Steve Healey is the author of EARTHLING and 10 MISSISSIPPI, both from Coffee House Press. His essays and criticism have appeared in the Writer's Chronicle and Rain Taxi, and his poems have appeared in the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and the journals American Poetry Review, Boston Review, FENCE, jubilat, and others. He received his MFA at University of Massachusetts-Amherst and his PhD at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Minneapolis and has recently taught at Michigan State University, Macalester College, and the University of Minnesota.

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