Working Class Voodoo

by Bobby Parker

Bobby Parker's Working Class Voodoo is an enterprise of dark metaphysics which exists in the same tradition as Thomas de Quincey and Elizabeth Bishop. Punishing, plaintive, improper, vitally comic, Parker employs a vibrato narrative deeply concerned with the cost of both journey and arrival, with the irresistible darkness of both humour and tragedy in contrast and counter to one another. Our unreliability, our addictions and our weaknesses are both indulged and confronted. Yet where such commitment to the uncovering of artifice might be expected to provoke disdain, Parker's singing faith in human love is what these poems reveal. What is lost will be recovered, and what was thought impossible will be achieved, no matter the darkness, no matter the weight.

Working Class Voodoo is a confessional and a challenge, and a swampy, seductive ride into the night.

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

Published May 18, 2018

Reviews

[Bridget · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the good kind of trigger, the one that makes me feel human because someone else is validating experiences that commonly alienate me from others. I love this book! Thanks