In The Annotated Murder of One, Jared Pearce takes lines, phrases, and words from the Counting Crows song, “A Murder of One,” and spins them into new directions and dimensions, exploring themes rooted in memory, history, the future, and the relationship between love and understanding. The poems are experiments in mixing song and poetry, lyrics and stories, memory and vision. Imagery, including birds, ghosts, flowers, jokes, a clutch of kids, and the “you” at its center, forms the ...

Talking of Dirty Laundry, Dates and “Noguchi” …Laugh Out Loud: A Collection of Funny PoemsIf you are determined to stay cool, and positive and survive the negativity of the news and people around you, then this is the book for you, read it and allow yourself to feel healthy emotional changes from the inside out to relieve stress, feel motivated, and find the bright side in any situation fast.Excerpt from Dirty Laundry:“She hung it out there on the line—as if nobody ...