Laughing at Funerals Author:David McLean Poetry. "Once again David McLean has captured the voice of the disaffected and disaffection itself in a finely nuanced collection of poetry, LAUGHING AT FUNERALS. In this volume, McLean's most accessible, the reader is thrust into the surrealistic reality of existence and painful refractory ennui. McLean is at once melancholy and profound, an ex... more »traordinary writer with endless elegance, grace and talent, and a style quite his own. This is your first mandatory literary purchase of 2010. And if it is your only one, count yourself lucky"--Jack Henry.« less