Poetry. These poems are interesting exhortations, rants and meditations on subjects relating to working. They are bound to strike a chord in anyone who has ever had to make a living. When I read the inimitable Jack Wiler, I can't tell if I'm laughing or crying, or being punched in the teeth by the Zeitgeist. Here is true grit, true rage, true fear and lust, true language. If you hate your job, read this book. Read it anyway. Face it and laugh (Alicia Ostriker). I could hear the worms in the walls. / Old house borers clicking in the timbers of the attic. / Termites tumbling over each other / in the damp wood of the basement. / Everything working very fast hastening decay. / Work fast we all cried. / There is the devil's work to be done. / Work fast. (The Devil's Workshop). In Jack Wiler's world it's always busy for no discernible reason except so you can tell the difference between the working stiff and the stiff stiff. Wiler's the Poet of Scabs and Warts, where every glimmer has a slammer, a can of can't, a dose of don'

I Have No Clue

Literature & Fiction

Wiler, Jack

Shot, Dan

Poetry

Long Shot Productions

<p>Four years ago, Jack Wiler was hospitalized with AIDS. This book is his attempt to talk about what it is to die and live again. The collection is far more than his struggle with the AIDS virus. Wiler aims for the hard truth as he writes about the world, money, jobs, love, sex, and death. As Wiler says, “It can be loud and it can be soft but it is never quiet.”</p>

Fun Being Me: Poems

CavanKerry Press

In this posthumous collection, attention is paid to the present moment. Wiler examines, with humor, compassion and fearlessness, the pleasures in life--especially the varieties of love--from friendship to sex--and how we are capable of ruining those pleasures for ourselves or for others. Jack helps us understand that life and death are each, in its own way, gifts we must live with relish, abandon and commitment.

Divina Is Divina: Poetry (Notable Voices)

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Books by Wiler, Jack

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I Have No Clue

Fun Being Me: Poems

Divina Is Divina: Poetry (Notable Voices)