Minor Gods and Major Scoundrels

poetry that fails to cock a snook athuman follyand is insufficiently outragedwith the stupidly crueland the corruptis far too soft andbest left unwrittenand poetry marinatedonly in vinegarwith neither levitynor sweetnessis much too hard andcan neither informnor inspireafter much consideration thereforei have made it mymissionto become the Goldilocksof the formNeither too sweet nor too sour, Minor Gods and Major Scoundrels lays bare life and politicsin the 21st century. Poems and song lyrics are at turns reverent and irreverent, satiricaland tender. An imagined dialogue between Trump and Leonard Cohen, encounters withGod(s), golf, love, mortality-these and a vast array of other topics are subject to Kleinplatz's unflinching gaze. Minor Gods and Major Scoundrels will appeal to an adult audience that likes to be provoked both to thought and laughter.