Open Book is celebrating National Poetry Month with daily profiles of today's "unacknowledged legislators of the world." Find out what inspires, confounds and delights the poets behind this spring's new releases by following our series.
The days of the door-to-door encyclopedia salesman may be over, but Gabe Foreman's delightful and quirky first collection, A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People takes the reference book to new imaginative heights. And it's a good thing the travelling salesman has already moved on — according to Jeramy Dodds, "This compendium of bipeds makes all others obsolete. A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People is full of eclectic wisdom, uncanny beasts and refracted truisms. Foreman’s cerebral sleights-of-hand are so electric, my mind wouldn’t close my eyes. It’s about time someone got 'us' down for what we are."
Gabe Foreman will launch A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People at Revival on Wednesday, April 27th at the Coach House Spring 2011 Launch. Visit our Events page for details.
