Don't Try

Download or read book Don't Try written by Canada Research Chair in Poetics and Assistant Professor of English Nathan Brown and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of co-written poems, former Oklahoma Poet Laureate Nathan Brown and three-time Austin Music Hall-of-Famer Jon Dee Graham call on the grumpy specter of Charles Bukowski to tell their world slant. Every poem's title is a line or phrase from Bukowski's work. Even the title of the book, "Don't Try," is the inscription on the old man's tombstone. Like a collection of profane Psalms, this book brings the concept of "duet" to poetry. And it comes out swinging with the sounds of distorted guitars and smoke-encrusted vocals.