Letter to So-And-So From Wherever

by Mike Dockins

  • Letter to So-And-So From Wherever
  • Price: $16.00
  • Trade paper, 6x9, 122 pages
  • ISBN 10: 1-936196-49-2
  • ISBN 13: 978-1-936196-49-4
  • August 2014

Praise for Mike Dockins and Letter to So-And-So From Wherever

Dazzling and dizzying are the two words that come to mind after reading Mike Dockins’ latest collection of poetry, Letter to So-and-So from Wherever.In this remarkable compilation of letter-poems, Dockins is a darkly comic contemporary Whitman—his language as rich and stunning, his reach as exuberant and far-ranging. From the hilariously poignant opening missive to Santa Claus to the final lines of ‘Letter to Sanders from Academia’—his zany critique of (among other things) academia and corporate America—this book will carry you on a brilliant and wildly magnificent ride.
—Beth Gylys, author of Spot in the Dark

The thousand injuries of wasting through nearly eight years—eight years!—between books by Mike Dockins! I have grown thin and ragged. O how the insufferable suffering of the universe has screamed—no, yawped—for this. It was well worth the wait. America’s book reviewers take note upon your iPads: here’s the language laid brutally honest and crankified. Find and grip tiny thesauri to discover violent verbs that describe this assault: a pummeling, whomping, pugilating new collection.
—Jamie Iredell, author of I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac

Careful, thoughtful, sometimes painful, often adventuresome, Mike Dockins’ Letter to So-and-So from Whereverlets us in to some of the byways by which we know one another, address one another, by one of the most sacred means there is.
—Dara Wier, author of You Good Thing

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About the Author

Mike Dockins

Mike Dockins was born in 1972 and grew up in Yonkers, New York. He holds a BS from Suny Brockport (1999), an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2002), and a PhD from Georgia State University (2010). His poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West, Willow Springs, Salt Hill, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, The Offending Adam, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere, and they have been reprinted on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in the 2007 edition of The Best American Poetry. His critically-acclaimed first book of poems, Slouching in the Path of a Comet (Sage Hill Press, 2007), after moving 850 copies, is currently anticipating a third print run. Letter to So-and-So from Wherever, his second collection, was a co-winner of the first annual Maxine Kumin Prize in Poetry. Mike moonlights as a singer-songwriter. Fame For Zoe, the latest full-length album from his acoustic-pop duo Clop, is available on iTunes. For the last 14 summers, he has taught creative writing in Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth summer program at its Dickinson College campus in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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