01/08/2022
**NOW AVAILABLE**
Jonathan Lethem: Horse With No Cake: Selected Poems & Lyrics
Available now, at anothersunbooks.com
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We already knew that Jonathan Lethem is a great novelist, but who knew that he’s also one of our most ingenious Pop poets? Like a newly discovered B-side to his long career, Horse With No Cake collects not only the many song lyrics he’s written over the years but also some of the most formally inventive and exciting poetry out there. This collection realizes many of the ideas on originality and remix laid out in his groundbreaking essay, “The Ecstasy of Influence.” It also goes a few steps further, offering new insight into Lethem’s life and thought via poem-essays on everything from Cosmicomics to The Mets and an illuminating “Notes” section that is not to be missed. Pick up this book and you’ll find it hard not to sing along “Marxist thoughts come easily to me/ Almost as easy as watching tv.” Horse With No Cake is the postrock, post-modern, post-post songbook of our times.
—Tom Comitta, author of The Nature Book
Rants and rumination, cryptic and caustic and crystal clear in equal doses.
—Steve Wynn, songwriter, The Dream Syndicate
Jonathan Lethem is as serious about poetry as Roberto Bolaño was. He
hits it out of the park and he's not even playing!
—Gloria Frym, poet, author of How Proust Ruined My Life & Other Essays
HORSE WITH NO CAKE HORSE WITH NO CAKE COLLECTED POEMS & SONG LYRICSFROM BEST-SELLING NOVELIST & McARTHUR PRIZE RECIPIENT JONATHAN LETHEM COLLECTED POEMS & SONG LYRICSFROM BEST-SELLING NOVELIST & McARTHUR PRIZE RECIPIENT JONATHAN LETHEM “We already knew that Jonathan Lethem is a great novelist, but...
