Doppelgänged

by Fritz Ward

Fritz Ward’s Doppelgänged is an electrified daguerreotype of authorial impulse, a swerving tour around the haunted amusement park we call narrative. Ward’s proxies write their own misadventures, setting up their shadowy sideshows near agricultural accidents, morgues, and drive-ins. The poems in this dazzling, maximalist collection swing gracefully through the reader’s reflection, and each risky inversion of verbal acrobatics allows both the speaker and the audience to share in the pleasurable vertigo that comes from working without a net. Doppelgänged’s fun house of mirrored forgeries reveals a portrait, in multiple exposures, of the poet himself and much more.

Genres: Poetry

44 pages, ebook

First published August 2, 2011

About the author

Fritz Ward is the author of Tsunami Diorama (The Word Works, 2017) and Doppelgänged (Blue Hour Press, 2011). He is a recipient of the Cecil Hemly Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, His poems have been featured in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Blackbird, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He lives just outside of Philadelphia and works at Swarthmore College.

Reviews

[Fritz · Rating 5 out of 5]

If your doppelgänger doesn't support you, who will?

[Simeon Berry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mr. Ward's doppelgangers are intricate, involuted, immensely pleasing, and very much like themselves.

[Roxanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fritz's poems never fail to astonish me with their beauty, complexity, sadness, and sweetness. And I'm not just saying that because I'm married to him.