How to Be Better by Being Worse

How to Be Better by Being WorseAuthor: Justin Jannise ISBN: 9781950774234 Publisher: BOA Editions Year first published: 22 Jun 2021 Pages: 88 Format: Paperback softback Selected by Richard Blanco as winner of the 2019 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Justin Jannise turns the self help manual on its head in How to be Better by Being Worse. These poems flout, subvert, question, and ignore the rules with exploratory energy. Queer experiences are celebrated from crushing on long dead, sad

He vividly writes about the night when his home was bombed out

and over the years her respect for his writing grows even as Kerouac's reputation undergoes a gradual transition from enfant terrible to American icon

These are the two central questions tackled in the extensively re-written and up dated second edition of this well-regarded and much-cited text

It contributes significantly to scholarship on civilian life in Occupied France

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All he sees is a beautiful man sitting on a park bench

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While the city has formed a key theme for scholars of literary fiction

King Here is the eye-opening true story of God's unfolding plan to bring a rich man through the "eye of the needle"

being a mixture of archival and ethnographic material composed with a unique textual structure

yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects