Interstate Chokehold

by Frank Reardon

FRANK REARDON has published several poetry collections including "Cancer Face, Exorcism Of The Con-Artist" and "Rival Tongues." His work has appeared in such magazines and webzines as "New York Quarterly, Quillbillies, Black Listed, Epic Rites, Denver Syntax" and "Kill Poet." "Interstate Chokehold" is his first major collection. Frank currently lives in North Dakota and is working on his first novel.
Reviews
Frank Reardon is a truly exceptional young poet currently rising up from the bowels of the internet. One could compare his work to prominent street poets of past generations, but it would be unfair to lump him in with anyone, for his work has no problem standing on its own merit.
- John Dorsey
Frank Reardon works words like a hungry young prize fighter, creating killer combinations that produce knock out verse. A real contender, the kids a triple threat with heart, style and class. An up and comer to be reckoned with.
- S.A. Griffin
Frank Reardon is a prophet, word brawler and unapologetic caller of societys bullshit. His words are brutally honest and can take you places you didnt know existed or werent comfortable traveling to alone. One of the best voices of our generation.
- Richard Daley
Frank Reardon is a heart beating through impenetrable odds. His writing reaches into your skin, grabs your bones and asks you to dive head first off the cliffs of fear and fragility into the vulnerable sky of our empathetic space and time.
- Scott Wannberg

Genres: Poetry

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 2009

About the author

Frank Reardon was born in 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts and spent his
first 28 years living there. Since then, he has lived all over the country,
in places such as Alabama, Kansas City and Rhode Island. He currently lives
in the Badlands of North Dakota, still looking for a way to get out. Frank
has been published in various reviews, journals and online zines. His first
book, Interstate Chokehold, was published by NeoPoiesis Press in 2009,
His second Nirvana Haymaker was published by NeoPoiesis Press in 2012.
Blood Music was published by Punk Hostage Press in 2013.

Reviews

[Misti Rainwater-Lites · Rating 5 out of 5]

kick ass
yes
these poems are fucking phenomenal

[Wanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

My second go-to poetry collection. Great stuff.

[Neil McCrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hard drinkin', Boston Irish, word brawler.

Too reductionist a description for you?

Your loss.

[Chuck Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ass kicker. I will be going over this for a long time.

[Dena Guzman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finally got to read this. If you don't know what you are saying, don't say it. Frank knows what he's saying. I think how he says it will get sharper and sharper with each new book, and I am sure there will be many.