Watchin Cartoons Before Attending
A Funeral

John Surowiecki

$14.00 64 pages ISBN 1-893996-60-3

Winner of the White Pine Press
Poetry Prize Number 8 -- sample [PDF]

John Surowiecki was born and grew up in Meriden, Connecticut, He received his B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Connecticut. While there, he won the annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize on two occasions. John works as a freelance writer in the Hartford area. His work has appeared in journals of all kinds,
including: Briar Cliff Review, RHINO, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Columbia and Nimrod Review.
His poems have won prizes in contests sponsored by the Georgia State University Review, Common Ground Review,
Portland Pen, Kimera, The Mississippi Review and Two Rivers Review. He has published two chapbooks: Caliban Poems and Five-hundred Widowers in a Field of
Chamomile.

"John Suroweicki's Watching Cartoons before Attending
a Funeral enacts an intimate and familial accord
between personal and communal perceptions -'the
etiquette failure teaches, the quiet an owl inspires'-
the sweet sting of living. He 'lowers a lens' and we
see what has been there all along, so self-evident
yet willfully avoided. The poet endows our thousand
and one indiscretions with a human face and the words
to admit them. Watching Cartoons before a Funeral is a
risk and a beckoning."
-C.D. Wright