A prolific poet, David Case rarely sent his work to journals; instead, he shared his poems, often via email, with friends around the world. As years passed, poems were added to and deleted from The Tarnation of Faust, the manuscript he worked on most of his adult life. This book includes substantial sections from that manuscript, as well as some of the best of the hundreds of poems uncollected at the time of the poet's death.

The Tarnation of Faust

Literature & Fiction

Case, David Allen

Poetry

Gunpowder Press

<p>David Allen Case was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He earned a Bachelor's from the University of Alabama and a Ph. D. in English from UCLA. He died unexpectedly at age 49. His first collection poems, The Tarnation of Faust, launched Gunpowder Press. The publication of Before Traveling to Alabama further highlights Case's remarkable talent and marks the tenth anniversary of the Press."I remember best, and most achingly, David Case's ironic earnestness; even in casual conversation he was always mixing another moving mashup.  I'm particularly struck now, reading these poems, by the timeliness of this, how they reveal the ways the complications of kitsch and the undertow of wonder in American culture might either doom or redeem us. "Who's ever seen a happy // piano player in a movie?" the man at the keyboard asks. Look here, and you'll find him, as I did once again, reveling in his trenchant wit, remembering his devilish hesitant grin. " --Reed Wilson, Creative Writing Coordinator, UCLA"David Case is a master of the seemingly effortless one-off, but the strength of his poetry is its dazzling complexity. What I most admire about his work is the high wire act in which he vaults from his formidable command of literary and cultural history to wry observations on whatever bits of trash are at hand. "--Carolie Parker, Author of Mirage Industry</p>

Before Traveling to Alabama

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The Tarnation of Faust

Before Traveling to Alabama