Bouquet of Red Flags
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Product Description
With the perfect blend of wit, eloquence, and honesty, Taylor Mali’s poems delight, haunt, and illuminate with equal measure every subject they celebrate. Bouquet of Red Flags is laced with more than the typical LSD (love, sex, divorce) of modern poetry. Here lie poems that elevate the overlooked daily miracles of coincidence (“The Luck I Crave”) as well as the blessings of loss and longing (“Love as a Form of Diving”). Whether employing form or rhyme or merely crafting the artful prose he is known for, Taylor Mali delivers entertaining epiphanies spiced with the “Deepest Condiments.”
Review
“Taylor Mali is a literary provocateur. A ranting comic showman.” — The NYT
About the Author
Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the original poets to appear on the HBO series “Def Poetry Jam.” A four-time National Poetry Slam champion, he completed a 12-year project of convincing 1,000 people to become teachers and marked the occasion by donating 12 inches of his hair to the American Cancer Society. He curates the popular Page Meets Stage reading series in New York City.
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55
My
Deepest
Condiments
I
send
you
my
deepest
condiments
was
in
no
way
what
my
old
friend
meant
to
say
or
write
or
send
the
night
she
penned
a
note
to
me
one
week
after
my
father
died.
Not
condolences,
or
sentiments,
she
sent
me
her
deepest
condiments
instead,
as
if
the
dead
have
need
of
relish,
mustard,
and
ketchup
on
the
other
side.
O,
the
word
made
me
laugh
so
hard
out
loud
it
hurt!
So
wonderfully
absurd,
and
such
a
sweet
relief
at
a
time
when
it
seemed
only
grief
was
allowed
in
after
my
father’s
death,
sweet
and
simple
laughter,
which
is
nothing
more
than
breath
from
so
far
deep
inside
it
often
brings
up
with
it
tears.
And
so
I
laughed
and
laughed
until
my
sides
were
sore.
And
later
still,
I
even
cried
a
little
more.
–
Taylor
Mali
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