Shirley J. (NoShushing) -
From the jacket: "Media-steeped snapshots of desire, profit, despair, violence, and death"; such ...are the prescient poems of Kenneth Fearing. In a career spanning the Jazz Age and the Cold War, Fearing--who was also a crime novelist and a journalist--charted the jangling and pervasive intrusions of film, radio, television, and tabloids, creating a surreal and boisterous documentary of the mediia culture in which we remain enmeshed.
