DOUCHEBAG SONNETS (paperback)

“‘Douchebag Sonnets’ represents the work of a strong poetical intelligence probing into the mysteries of life and death, of reality and appearance. With their tricks of antithesis, these 35 sonnets killdozer-rig a phony-baloney casket of guilt and sin and call it macaroni. These poems can penetrate your sleep and listen to your dreams.”

—J.G. Henderson Carr, author of “Fernando Pessoa: His Lives and Times”

“Jeremy Freedman redefines what a douchebag is and what a douchebag does, at least on paper. ‘I know that telling you everything,’ he tells us, ‘will be the same is the same as telling you nothing.’ He is lying. What these sonnets tell us is much closer to everything than nothing. They invigorate and stretch a sometimes creaky form, in ways seemingly designed to bother many of our most esteemed poets… all the sonnets here are honest, provocative, entertaining, and wise—filled with this poet's gleeful awareness that he is violating poetic decorum at every turn, as he leads us toward painful enlightenment. This collection is the audacious work of a genuine ‘giant’ douchebag sage.”

—George Guida, author of “Zen of Pop” and “New York and Other Lovers,” Poetry Editor Emeritus of 2 Bridges Review