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Anthony Frame

Everything I Know…

Everything I Know…, the new chapbook of poems by Anthony Frame, in which a suicidal astronaut tries to eat a banana, the Lincoln Memorial is turned into a drag queen dance hall, Kermit the Frog dabbles in existentialism, and Marvin Gaye covers Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.”
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Praise for Everything I Know…

Anthony Frame has a gift for pushing the envelope of the list poem, creating a richly imagined series of poems that are remarkable, refreshing and joyous. Frame turns the Americana of Kurt Cobain, Buffy, Survivor, Chaz Bono, air guitar, bumper stickers and more into a breathtaking experience, where we get inside the “scream… boiling beneath” Kermit the Frog, discover Ron Jeremy’s sexual act is “almost iambic” and superhero masks have “eyeholes as Freudian mirrors.” The genius is in the line Frame walks between playful and serious, between poetic and casual. “When I die, prove / once and for all the primacy of metaphors.” This book has done so and more.

—Matthew Silverman, author of The Breath Before Birds Fly

Everything I Know I… teaches us it’s all semiotics and mythographies. The symbols we are, the couplets we make are all footnotes elsewhere. Here is a poet who is trying to trace himself back to himself, to find the name behind the names, to understand the why of the whys. Is he successful? He shows us he is, but makes us question it. Let this book show you Anthony Frame. He knows himself and he is unashamed.

—Dan Nowak, author of Recycle Suburbia and The Hows and Whys of My Failures

Anthony Frame

About the Author

Anthony Frame is an exterminator from Toledo, Ohio, where he lives with his wife. He is the author of the full-length poetry book, A Generation of Insomniacs (Main Street Rag Press, 2014), and the chapbook, Paper Guillotines (Imaginary Friend Press, 2010). His work has appeared in numerous journals, both online and in print, including Verse Daily, Third Coast, Harpur Palate, Redactions, diode, Versal and The Dirty Napkin. His work has appeared in the anthologies Bigger than They Appear: An Anthology of Very Small Poems (Accents Publishing, 2011) and Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books (Minor Arcana Press, 2014) and his poem “Everything I Know I Learned from Lazarus” was released as a limited edition broadside by Yellow Flag Press. He also co-founded and co-edited Glass: A Journal of Poetry from 2008 until it closed its doors in 2013.

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