THE SHORTEST FAREWELLS
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The Shortest Farewells Are the Best is a clever and hilarious tour de force. With lines culled from dozens of noir films ranging from the famous to the obscure, Chuck Rosenthal and Gail Wronsky have fashioned a brilliant literary collage that is as entertaining as it is thought provoking. I haven’t the foggiest notion of how they came up with the idea for this book, but I’m certainly glad their off-kilter muse paid them a visit.
—Tom Hazuka, editor of Flash Fiction Funny
“Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains.”
“Maybe if I was a little bit smart, I’d be a little bit lucky.”
Never was there a world where people talked like that—precise, salty, bracingly honest—and maybe that’s darn too bad. Meanwhile, we can console ourselves with Chuck Rosenthal and Gail Wronsky’s poems composed of come-ons, smack-downs, threats and enticements spoken by actual B-movie actors. These might read like madhouse non sequitors, but crazy funny, or they might resolve themselves into conversations that seem to make darkly paradoxal sense. The wicked fun the two have with this 40s and 50s dialogue proves what some of us have always suspected, Noir is Poetry’s evil twin. Evil, that is, in a good way.
—Suzanne Lummis, author of the poetry collection Open 24 Hours
—Tom Hazuka, editor of Flash Fiction Funny
“Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains.”
“Maybe if I was a little bit smart, I’d be a little bit lucky.”
Never was there a world where people talked like that—precise, salty, bracingly honest—and maybe that’s darn too bad. Meanwhile, we can console ourselves with Chuck Rosenthal and Gail Wronsky’s poems composed of come-ons, smack-downs, threats and enticements spoken by actual B-movie actors. These might read like madhouse non sequitors, but crazy funny, or they might resolve themselves into conversations that seem to make darkly paradoxal sense. The wicked fun the two have with this 40s and 50s dialogue proves what some of us have always suspected, Noir is Poetry’s evil twin. Evil, that is, in a good way.
—Suzanne Lummis, author of the poetry collection Open 24 Hours
Cover art and logo by GRONK
Copyright 2009-2012 What Books Press. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright 2009-2012 What Books Press. All Rights Reserved.
