No Farther Than the End of the Street

(By Benjamin Niespodziany)

Read Ebook
×

Size	22 MB (22,081 KB)
Format	PDF
Downloaded	598 times
Last checked	9 Hour ago!
Author	Benjamin Niespodziany

“Book Descriptions: Nothing within the pages of Benjamin Niespodziany's debut, full-length collection, NO FARTHER THAN THE END OF THE STREET, happens outside the confines of a single neighborhood block. Every word inside this book takes place in the young couple's home, or on the front lawn, or in the backyard, or just down the way at a neighbor's house, but never does it stray beyond where the street ends. If you notice any of the characters tiptoeing where they don't belong, please be sure to let the author know for this is a contained space for the author and his poems to play.

Praise for NO FARTHER THAN THE END OF THE STREET:

“If you take a short walk at just the right time in just the right light, you can see all sorts of tiny, astonishing things. This book, NO FARTHER THAN THE END OF THE STREET, is like that. I can’t stop staring." – Daniel Handler, author of BOTTLE GROVE, and as Lemony Snicket, A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

"Benjamin Niespodziany shows us how poetry can live inside the Nonstop! No breaks, not a single pause; one page gets us turning to the next in this brilliant and wildly inventive book! The kind of weird home I want for all poems, where we most unexpectedly and very gratefully learn the smell of melancholy." – CAConrad, author of AMANDA PARADISE and THE BOOK OF FRANK

"Benjamin Niespodziany’s poems are intertwined lullabies written for the Theater of the Absurd, but think of it on a lawn, where things are meant to mean, even though they don't. His book’s like a weird diorama built by Edson, Kharms, Beckett, Deren, Shrigley, and Devo where Ben gets to playfully, menacingly even, move the people around the flowers, the lawn equipment. Sweet and deadly, each poem is a little cupcake, your cupcake, for the whale." – Zachary Schomburg, author of MAMMOTHER and FJORDS VOL. 1 & 2

"Have you ever returned somewhere, somewhere you’ve been before, only to notice it is different? This object, somewhat askew, but not by much. That person, of course, their name is the same it’s always been. And it goes on like this, this noticing, this thought of noticing, & it turns not into a place you've returned to, but rather a place you've never left. Have you ever done that? Don’t answer until you’ve read Niespodziany's NO FARTHER THAN THE END OF THE STREET." – Dalton Day, author of EXIT, PURSUED and SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE”