(New York Quarterly Press), new poems by Richard Broderick
“They liked the radiant smile, his upbeat manner
and so, despite a scanty work record –
‘Assistant carpenter, then three years
wandering the hills’ -- they hired him
as a greeter, the wages from his full-time,
28-hour-a-week job not enough to cover
the company’s health insurance. ‘Get sick
around here and you just have to heal yourself,’
muttered a disgruntled “associate,” a 50-ish mother
whose crippled daughter got up the very
next day and walked, everybody calling it
a miracle, just like that special order
of tee-shirts that sold for $1.99 each.”
— from “Jesus of Walmart”
— Midwest Book Review
— Deborah Keenan, author of So She Had the World and From Tiger to Prayer
— Jared Smith, author of The Collected Poems: 1971-2011, and To the Dark Angels
— William Daly, author of The Road to Isla Negra and translator of Pablo Neruda
Jesus of Walmart retails for $14.95. Books are available from multiple online retailers including Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com, IndieBound.org and SPDbooks.org. They can be ordered directly from New York Quarterly Press.
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