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On The Wagon... On A Binge
“In his latest book On The Wagon, not only does Provost use Hemingway's ‘Bullshit Detector’ with his own brand of gorgeous agony, but Provost has also updated the model, completely taken it over and renamed it.”
---Frank Reardon, author of Blood Music
“On the Wagon...On A Binge by Dan Provost deals with the loneliness and desperation of a writer trapped at the bottom of a Jack Daniel's bottle. These are the stifled, drunken words of a man searching for meaning and humanity in a world full of people hiding behind superficial masks from themselves and their own pain. Mixed in amidst the brief moments of sobriety and insanity here, there is always a sense of personal truth, or at least an honest search for it. Provost dissects his emotions and displays them on the page, not for the sake of an “audience” or even “literature”, but for the sake of trying to make it through another day. Always quite aware that death is following close behind, waiting to catch him should he fall off the wagon a few too many more times. Above all else, there is true and honest poetry here.”
--RC Edrington, author of Use Once & Destroy
---Frank Reardon, author of Blood Music
“On the Wagon...On A Binge by Dan Provost deals with the loneliness and desperation of a writer trapped at the bottom of a Jack Daniel's bottle. These are the stifled, drunken words of a man searching for meaning and humanity in a world full of people hiding behind superficial masks from themselves and their own pain. Mixed in amidst the brief moments of sobriety and insanity here, there is always a sense of personal truth, or at least an honest search for it. Provost dissects his emotions and displays them on the page, not for the sake of an “audience” or even “literature”, but for the sake of trying to make it through another day. Always quite aware that death is following close behind, waiting to catch him should he fall off the wagon a few too many more times. Above all else, there is true and honest poetry here.”
--RC Edrington, author of Use Once & Destroy
27 pages, Chapbook
First published November 27, 2013
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About the author
Dan Provost
19 books5 followersA veteran of the small press, Dan Provost's poetry has been published both in print and online for many years. He is the author of ten books, His latest--Under the Influence of Nothingness was released in February, 2020 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. He also has another collection, Rattle of a Realizer--being published by Whiskey City Press later this year. He lives in Berlin, New Hampshire with his wife Laura and Bichon Frise Bella.
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February 23, 2014
Great poems from Dan Provost written in various states of sobriety but never missing the mark in brilliant imagery, great word work and nailing the point every time!
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