Sight Lines from the Cheap Seats

Sightlines from the Cheap Seats is the latest book of extraordinary poetry by prize-winning poet Joseph Di Prisco. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis has praised Di Prisco’s “strong and original voice.” Dean Young, Pulitzer Prize-finalist, wrote that “addressing unquenchable longing and the shadows of death and failure, the lyric engines of [his] poems propel us with vital combustions”; his work “is proof of the presence of a large, funny, and indefatigable spirit.”

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  • “Sightlines From the Cheap Seats is a big book full of sharp, funny takes on directions, lists, résumés, mission statements―the documents that spread across our lives. The exuberance of Di Prisco's voice is exhilarating. He'll spin out an image or a catalogue about as far as it will go, then take it farther still. Puns abound. Joseph Di Prisco is the commander of the comic turn, the pasha of absurd hyperbole. No need for an appointment―the satrap will see you now.”

    — Don Bogen, An Algebra

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