Nirvana Haymaker
ISBN 978-0-9855577-7-5
180 pages
$16.95
5.5″x8.5″ perfect bound, paper
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Here are what others are saying about the book:
“Read Frank Reardon at your own risk. He’ll open your heart with a corkscrew and leave you wide-eyed and longing for more…these are goddamed excellent poems.”
– Dan Fante, author of Chump Change, Kissed By a Fat Waitress and Mooch
“If you have any feelings left then the poems in The Nirvana Haymaker will disturb you. Not because there’s something wrong with them but because what of they reveal about Mr. Reardon’s depth of personal examination. There are precious few who are writing with such honesty these days.”
– RD Armstrong, editor & founder of Lummox Press
“Frank’s poems are honest and moving documents from one human to any other with the ear and heart to receive them. They do much to remind me it is important to try and be truly alive in this, our time upon the earth.”
-William Taylor Jr., author of An Age of Monsters
“You’re sitting in a dark room, alone, washing down Valium with coffee, wishing you could see the stars through the dirty window; instead, you see a reflection of yourself, the lines on your face heavier, the life in your eyes drained. You hope for something better: a better girl, a better place, a better you. Cigarette smoke cuts the bitterness for a second. You squint, through the haze, trying so hard to see something in yourself. The heater brightens the room when you take a drag. There’s nothing left. May as well write about it and hope to hell someone comes along to share your coffee and your life, making those damn lines mean something more than just empty scars.”
– R L Raymond, editor, Pigeon Bike Press
“Frank Reardon presents the self, suspended, stepping away from moments to observe their context, attentive to unusual details, emerging changed in the face of them. He remains the poet in the “pause” of his earlier collection, Interstate Chokehold, but readers will find that his world has changed: his influences more accessible, his connection inextricable, less transcendent.
His is now a quieter agitation- a processing, toward more stable ground. The Nirvana Haymaker reveals an evolving poetic, candid and confessional as before, but tapping into new psychic territories where his imagination is given a more confident liberty.”
– Lynn Alexander, editor, Full of Crow Press
Frank Reardon’s poetry is high-voltage! It’s like when my brother stuck a screwdriver in an outlet to see what it would do and it did. Reardon’s words change who you are and your perception of the world as you know it forever. Get ready!
– Meg Tuite, fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review