Hunka Hunka Howdee! Poetry from Memphis, Nashville, and Louisville - by Rick Lupert (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Rick Lupert's 23rd collection of poems and latest travelogue written on the go in Memphis, Nashville, and Louisville. Two music cities, the birthplace of rock and Roll, Martin Luther King's final steps and barrels full of bourbon are no escape from Lupert's keen poetic eye and wit.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Rick Lupert's 23rd collection of poems and latest travelogue written on the go in Memphis, Nashville, and Louisville. Two music cities, the birthplace of rock and Roll, Martin Luther King's final steps and barrels full of bourbon are no escape from Lupert's keen poetic eye and wit.</p><p>"One of the smartest, funniest poets around." -Alexis Rhone Fancher, poetry editor, Cultural Weekly, seven-time Pushcart nominee</p><p>"One of my favorite poets" -Amber Tamblyn, author and actress</p><p>"Rick Lupert is a writer's chef" - Derrick Brown, poet and publisher, Write Bloody Publishing</p><p>"I know of no other poet able to establish intimacy with the audience as fast as Rick Lupert." - Brendan Constantine, poet, teacher, Red Hen Press and Write Bloody Publishing.</p><p>"Rick Lupert is a treasure. His poetry surprises us with a unique perspective that is both tender and wise. In a live environment I find Rick delightfully funny and arrestingly poignant." - Dan Nichols, Touring Jewish Musician</p><p>"Rick has a voice and style of his own. His take on life will show you things you have never seen or imagined before!" - Craig Taubman, Music Pioneer, Community Organizer</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>In "Hunka Hunka Howdee!" RIck Lupert defamiliarizes iconic auras with a reverent, droll insouciance. Like Sam Phillips, Lupert is in quest of the "perfect imperfection," that telling, subdued quirkiness in our cultural capital that every sincere flaneur of a tourist wants to provoke into revealing its most poignant secret. The best of these poems come close enough to being both seductive satire and genuinely sentimental encounters that you will want to linger with their wit. In reminding us of the <em>elsewhere</em> that always shadows here, Lupert's deftly sketched poems will help you keep "one foot each on and off / the beaten path" of skeptical wonder at the world's on-going peculiarities.<br /> <br /> -Bill Mohr, author of <em>The Headwaters of Nirvana, </em> and<br /> <em>HOLDOUTS: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance 1948-1992</em></p><p><br /> Rick Lupert is an exceptional poet. He's also as funny as Robin Williams at his most manic. These marvelous traveling poems work like little magic mechanical whatsits, but with a life to them that can only come from literary alchemy. Being a Memphian I was particularly enthralled by how much of my city he captures in his short, beguiling lines. Like, these from "The Heavy King: " "I saw his cars and jumpsuits and/would have touched every one//if it weren't for the signs.//...Good evening, Memphis. And goodnight./I'll meet your other King tomorrow." Lupert is an impish poet and he uses the playthings of language as if they were his very own Mousetrap game. "I have 20/20 vision," he says, "but all the evidence points to me also having 20/20 visions." This delightful collection is a trip with such a charming guide you'll want to take it over and over.</p><p>-Corey Mesler, author of <em>Madstones</em> and <em>Memphis Movie</em></p><br>
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