Yankee Broadcast Network - Softcover

A recent graduate of the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan, John F. Buckley has been writing poetry since an attempt at writing a self-help book went somewhat awry. After a twenty-year stint on and near the West Coast, he now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife.

Surely there's never been a better book of poetry about television. -Campbell McGrath --Book Jacket

Highly caffeinated and rich with piety-tweaking lines, these poems entertain and surprise. Time and again I laughed, I marveled. In these poems, elves make the toys but gnomes do the outdoor work, the gods of Mount Olympus lose their remote control, and we mistrust the rapture. But beneath the linguistic swagger beats a truth: we see screens and screens/ see us. Televised narratives shape and warp our perceptions of reality. But television also shapes and warps imagination. Yankee Broadcast Network is vivid proof. Quirky and kinetic language leaps off the pages. Brilliant riffs on reality television, game shows, and situation comedies amuse, jolt. Let me say it again: I laughed, I marveled. -Eduardo C Corral --Book Jacket

Everyone knows two wrongs actually do make a right; and two voices make an even grander voice. In Yankee Broadcast Network, Buckley and Ott mind-meld to make long poems in a singular voice that is ruminative, lyrical, magical, and to me, most importantly, hilarious. These poems are filled with contemporary profundities and ancient mysteries. They spill ever forwards like a movie you can't quite believe you're seeing. -Mathew Rohrer --Book Jacket

Highly caffeinated and rich with piety-tweaking lines, these poems entertain and surprise. Time and again I laughed, I marveled. In these poems, elves make the toys but gnomes do the outdoor work, the gods of Mount Olympus lose their remote control, and we mistrust the rapture. But beneath the linguistic swagger beats a truth: we see screens and screens/ see us. Televised narratives shape and warp our perceptions of reality. But television also shapes and warps imagination. Yankee Broadcast Network is vivid proof. Quirky and kinetic language leaps off the pages. Brilliant riffs on reality television, game shows, and situation comedies amuse, jolt. Let me say it again: I laughed, I marveled. -Eduardo C Corral --Book Jacket

Everyone knows two wrongs actually do make a right; and two voices make an even grander voice. In Yankee Broadcast Network, Buckley and Ott mind-meld to make long poems in a singular voice that is ruminative, lyrical, magical, and to me, most importantly, hilarious. These poems are filled with contemporary profundities and ancient mysteries. They spill ever forwards like a movie you can't quite believe you're seeing. -Mathew Rohrer --Book Jacket