This first full-length collection of work marks the emergence of a
strong new voice in American poetry.
Watching Cartoons Before Attending a Funeral enacts an intimate and
familiar accord between personal and communal perception--'the etiquette
failure teaches, the quiet an owl inspires'--the sweet sting of living.
He 'lowers a lens' and we see what has been there all along, so
self-evident yet willfully avoided. The poet endows our thousand and one
indiscretions with a human face and the words to admit them. Watching
Cartoons is a risk and a beckoning.--C.D. Wright
John Surowiecki, born and raised in Meridan, Connecticut, received
his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Connecticut. He lives
in Amston, Connecticut, where he is a freelance writer.