Selected Poems

Poetry.  290 Pages.  Published Jan. 23, 2013.  Bob Schneider's Selected Poems is a haunting and hilarious (often in the same line), artfully offensive, brilliantly reckless collection of poems. It’s a mad parade populated by burn victims, heartbroken superheroes, perverts, mythical mermotaurs, Oscar winners, drunks, rock stars, Hitler, Lincoln, P. Diddy and a whole car load of dead monkeys. The poems read as confessions, threats, jokes, lies, and some as all-out prophecy. Schneider captures more in a single phrase than many accomplished novelists can do in a hundred pages. Line after line, poem after poem, this is a collection of giggling nightmares and blood-soaked love songs.