$13.99
What a deep delight. Never mind that Adam LeFevre calls his latest book a compendium of “light(er) verse.” Beneath the wit and the comic flashes, this is poetry for real: a book of meditations on life, death and love, a thoughtful poet’s thoughtful consolation for the quiet pain of living and a reminder of life’s joy and, yes, its fun. If Dr. Johnson was right and the aim of writing is to enable readers a little better to enjoy life or a little better to endure it, Adam LeFevre juggles and manages both.
–David Ives is the award-winning author of All In The Timing, Venus In Fur, and other plays and translator of the classic French playwrights Moliere, Corneille, and Piron.
Adam LeFevre‘s new collection of poetry, light as it is, hilarious as the delivery of its counsel can be, goes directly to the human condition from which we all, yes, comically run, waving our hands to be saved from ourselves and one another. Here is poetry of the first order that somehow sees through official and unofficial lies and means to, and does, get its readers to hold a smile in common. “Though we live by our isms,/the world is reticent at its core.” one poem offers. This marvelous book of wisdom and consolation sees—(as Blake, another sort of humorist does)–the idiocy in generality, gathers and marshals a splendidly various idiom, and breaks the silences.
–William Olsen, poet, professor, and editor of New Issues Press.
QUIDDITY, ROGUERY, RUE: A COMPENDIUM OF LIGHT(ER) VERSE
by Adam LeFevre
$13.99, paper
978-1-63534-638-1
2018
Adam LeFevre has published three previous volumes of poetry: EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE, from Wesleyan University Press; GHOST LIGHT, from Finishing Line Press; and A SWINDLER ‘S GRACE, from New Issues Press. His plays have been produced in New York City and around the country. He makes his living as an actor on stage, television, and in films.
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