Cosmic Comic Kvetching in Anthony Immergluck’s “The Worried Well”

Cosmic Comic Kvetching in Anthony Immergluck’s “The Worried Well”

“The grand Guignol exaggeration provides an excellent comic read, as we fail to take completely seriously his worrywart grandstanding. Chances are, we have known someone exactly like him, who upon greeting us, got straight to describing their various medical conditions, real and imagined in excruciating detail.” Contemporary lyric poetry desperately needs more widespread comic verve. We live and write in an age in which lyric practitioners as a …