- Series: LSU Press Paperback Original
- Paperback: 104 pages
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (April, 2018)
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9780807167823
- To purchase, click HERE
Hothead is a hot book. Meteoric, mercurial, sexy, and haibun-ghosted, it is a jeremiadic prayer to language (“each word a partner, each sound a move”), the planet, and the vexed and stalwart “self.” At one point, Cushman’s speaker shares with his consort, an aging laptop he’s christened Patience (“Patty”), that “we need our own genre.”
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Reviews
This singular, arresting poem—part ars poetica, part encyclopedic litany of our imperiled cultural and historical moment, part prodigious lyric roller-coaster ride of the erotics of attention—creates just that.” —Lisa Russ Spaar
Steve Cushman reads from Hothead
Stephen Cushman 