Jenny Slate

Ron Slate

"Their rambling colonial house just outside of Boston may be haunted, but it's definitely full of surprises. Kitchen and bedrooms, yard and garden-- all trigger musings from renowned poet and essayist Ron Slate and his daughter, brilliant actress and comedian Jenny Slate"--

About the House

A new collection of poems by the business executive and award-winning poet considers political themes with insight and passion, drawing on the author's many business trips overseas for material. Original.

Poems

The Incentive of the Maggot

In his prize-winning collection, Ron Slate seeks out the intersections of art, technology, and humanity with intelligence, wit, and fervor. His unique voice is informed by his world travels as a business executive. As Robert Pinsky writes in his introduction, Slate “brings together the personal and the global in a way that is distinctive, subtle, defying expectations about what is political and what is personal.” In Slate's words, "Is this the end of the world? / No just the end / of the language that describes it." Recently published in The New Yorker, Slate has been praised by James Longenbach for his ability to “make the known world seem wickedly strange — a poetry that is utterly of the moment, our moment, because it sounds like nobody else.”

Ron Slate

Books

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