A Short History of Monsters: Poems by Padua, Jose

A Short History of Monsters: Poems

Winner, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize"We are the happy riders on the stream of Padua's consciousness ....
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Author: Jose Padua
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A Short History of Monsters: Poems by Padua, Jose

A Short History of Monsters: Poems

$47.43

A Short History of Monsters: Poems

$47.43
Author: Jose Padua
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

"We are the happy riders on the stream of Padua's consciousness . . . a smart, sympathetic mind at work."
--Billy Collins

Drawing on the spirit of New York City in decades past, A Short History of Monsters presents the sins and obsessions of a poet nimble in beat and slam traditions. In his first full-length collection, Jose Padua wrestles with an American dream interrupted by failure, excess, and other nightmares. Often brash and unruly, these poems range from recollections of lost, drunken days to unadorned manifestations of hope. Throughout, the speaker redefines his relationship to pop culture, praising it, skewering it, and mourning it by turns.

The poems that make up A Short History of Monsters tend toward both dark humor and epiphany, diving deeply into their own despair and rising up again with existential absurdity. This is a poetry that gets down into the grit and grime of the real world, digging out a space to experience being alive as miraculous in and of itself.



Author: Jose Padua
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 03/27/2019
Pages: 60
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781682260944


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2019 pg. 17

About the Author
Jose Padua, a veteran of New York's spoken-word literary scene, now lives in Washington, DC. This is his first book.

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