Forty Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death is a mischievous, genre bending collection that treats mortality as both a puzzle and a punchline. With wit, invention, and a flair for the surreal, McIntosh offers readers a set of “guarantees” that are anything but—turning the fear of death into a playground for imagination and philosophical delight.
“McIntosh spins a tantalizing web of tales-unlikely encounters with the famous; musical instruments invented not to be easily played, but rather to be beautiful objects themselves; and mega-lists, one of which is the sublime title poem. Constantly inventive, his poems are meta in their metamorphosis-one prose poem even becomes a review of his last book. He mythologizes terrorist threats and re-imagines Superman, zooming into Metropolis to scoop up Poetry and save it from the villains, Boredom and Pretense.”
–Denise Duhamel.
Sandy McIntosh is the author of several previous collections of poetry and prose. His essays have been published by: The New York Times, The Nation, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal and American Book Review. He is the managing editor of Marsh Hawk Press.
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