The lost cafeteria

"Taking cues from the 20th century life writing of Robin Blaser, Frank O'Hara, William Everson, Sylvia Plath and Alden Nowlan, The Lost Cafeteria is a stylistically shapeshifting bildungsroman in verse set between the author's evangelical upbringing and peripatetic adulthood. Exploring the shape of the "I-within-history," Ferguson mixes confessional lyric poetry with experimental détournements of advertising and human resources ideolects to visi...