CLASSIC PLASTIC
by Parker Tettleton

Description

Following up his title OR, a finalist for the Big Other Award for Fiction in 2023, comes Parker Tettleton’s CLASSIC PLASTIC: “Sly, funny, intimate—like Ken Sparling and Gary Lutz, Tettleton is a master of the sentence, the atoms if you will of writing life. But all three of these approach their mastery in individual ways”
—Cooper Renner, author of Disbelief, Florid Vic-torian Ornaments, and the upcoming Furred

“Metatextual and slyly funny and subversive, the prose poems in Parker Tettleton’s CLASSIC PLASTIC are compactly made things that, in an instant, veer out, towards the proverbial ether. But they can’t be captured there either. ‘I want to answer everything. I keep looking at the end of this sentence’ state the concluding lines of An Ambulance Can Only Go So Fast and the reader is left wondering how and why, in the best possible way. Imminently readable and re-readable, CLASSIC PLASTIC represents the best of contem-porary prose poetry.”
—Jeff Alessandrelli, author of And Yet

“In Parker Tettleton’s prose, you find a sentence is more than a sentence: it’s a room, a ghost, a domestic tableaux, a welcoming, a haunting, ‘a perfect disaster.’ Where “the leaves are pilsner” and ‘truth is a moment.’ I love getting lost and found and found again in the lines of this book.”
—Ashley Marie Farmer, author of Dear Damage