Tough Luck Poems [Hardcover]

[W]idely regarded as one of the best poets of his generation. . . . [Boss] us[es] brilliant wordplay and portray[s] the people and landscape of his childhood in Wisconsin with clarity and hard-edged grace.Bookended with poems about what persists and what crumbles . . . Boss's poems have a distinctand satisfyingrhythm.Boss is a poet to watch, likely to prove one of the leading voices of the next decade. Readers may be drawn into this collection for the poems that touch on disaster and divorce, but they'll stay for the memorable verses on nature and memory.Its deeply satisfying to be swept into the music that scores Todd Bosss third book,A latter-day avatar of[Todd Boss]s poems generate their own rambunctious music and remind us yes, / miracles happen.