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The Plumber's Apprentice 1 edition

Cover of: The Plumber's Apprentice by Joe Weil

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The Plumber's Apprentice differs from Weil's previous work in that it charts the nature of suffering beyond the limits of his working class "Elizabeth" and focuses more deeply on two aspects of his life: his Irish Catholic sense of communion, with the living and the dead (all who have gone forth marked with the sign of faith), and the essential solitude of being a single, short, bald man who has no offspring, no legacy, no beloved, and is falling, however slowly, to his death. Perhaps the question Weil asks most frequently is: given the inevitable co-ordinates of ongoing failure, how does a poet give the middle finger to grade z forms of Emersonian positivism and have some fun in this vale of tears? In sum: if love is impossible, and life severely limited, and loneliness is devouring the furniture, where's the closest bar, and do they have a good jukebox? For brief moments Weil succeeds in making failure, death and love his drinking buddies. In the poet's messed up ontology, they make for a lively and comical crew.

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The Plumber's Apprentice

Published 2009 by NYQ Books in New York, USA .

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
104
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.5 x inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24330631M
ISBN 13
978-1-935520-10-8
LC Control Number
2009937039
OCLC/WorldCat
610419246
library_of_congress_classification_(lcc)
PS3573.E3838 P58 2009
dewey_decimal_classification_(ddc)
811/.54
Goodreads
7428684

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