Many of the pieces in Paul Beatty's two collections BIG BANK TAKE LITTLE
BANK and JOKER JOKER DEUCE would be seen as finding the humor in absurdity,
especially as Chester Himes defined it.
Chris Hayden
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> I am trying to put together a list of living poets who's work is absurd
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> I wondered if anyone might have suggestions.
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> Thanks
> Andrea Baker
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>I was put on this earth to accomplish a certian number of things. Right now
>I'm so far behind I'll never die.
> Calvin & Hobbes
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