Placemats

"Jorie Graham rightly observed that “For every lie we’re told by advertisers and politicians, we need one poem to balance it.” Kenneth Pobo’s poems explore a variety of sociopolitical topics: global warming, the exploitation of the poor, and the disappearance of the natural world. Like Ginsberg, Pobo turns the commercial and political market of lies upside down in order to see just how absurd those lies really are and how they deceive the public. Without being sentimental or didactic, Pobo reminds us, as all good poets do, what it means to have a social conscience. Localized and exiled, Placemats is charged with an illuminating, enigmatic glow."
~ Jacqueline Marcus, author of Close to the Shore and editor of FORPOETRY.COM/ENVIRONMENTALPRESS.COM