There's More To It than That

by Jeff Weddle

Jeff Weddle - author of Dead Man's Hand and Good Party - returns with a new collection of poetry packed with his keen observations and trademark humor. The reader is always struck with a sense of wonder at Weddle's, and our, slightly off-kilter ordinary world. This is poetry for today.

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 26, 2021

About the author

Jeff Weddle grew up in Prestonsburg, a small town in the hill country of Eastern Kentucky. He has worked as a public library director, disc jockey, newspaper reporter, Tae Kwon Do teacher, and fry cook, among other things. His first book, Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press (University Press of Mississippi, 2007), won the Eudora Welty Prize and helped inspire Wayne Ewing's documentary, The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press (Wayne Ewing Films, 2007), for which Weddle served as associate producer. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in dozens of venues, including the anthologies Mondo Barbie (St. Martin, 1993) and Stovepiper Book One (Stovepiper Books, 1994). Weddle is the author of a poetry collection, Betray the Invisible (OEOCO, 2010), a limited-edition, fine press book handcrafted by master book artist Mary Ann Sampson, and a chapbook of Barbie poems, Not Another Blonde Joke (Implosion Press, 1991). Jeff Weddle is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama.