Sonnets to Morpheus ["I know kung fu"]
John Beer, "Sonnets to Morpheus [”I know kung fu.”]" from The Waste Land and Other Poems. Copyright © 2010 by John Beer. Reprinted by permission of Canarium Books.
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Poet John Beer
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Subjects Living, Time & Brevity, Arts & Sciences, Philosophy
Poetic Terms Sonnet
Biography
A Chicago resident, John Beer is the author of the poetry collection The Waste Land and Other Poems (2010).
Associative and imaginative, his work has been compared to that of John Ashbery. Poet Lewis Warsh wrote that The Waste Land and Other Poems “embraces and distills ‘the bad dream’ and all ‘the muck’ of the recent past, but the momentum of this book is full speed ahead.”
Beer’s criticism has appeared in Verse, the Denver . . .
Poems by John Beer
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Time & Brevity, Arts & Sciences, Philosophy
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms Sonnet
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