A Question for the King
Published on 25. February 2025
64 pages
979-8-8230-9196-1 (ISBN)
Description
How do you avoid getting arrested for shutting up your inner
child in a supermarket? And can you send her back? These,
and questions for kings and therapists live rent-free in Debby
Klein's second collection A Question For the King, a wild sowing
of poems and short fictions follows her exciting debut, Love
and Other Maladies. A Question For the King tackles hardy
perennials like a blowtorch to knotweed. Love, heartache, loss
and other maladies burn somewhere near Fahrenheit 451. A
sprinkling of myth: a twist of irony. A meander across the dark
side sewn with man-traps: longing, regret, failure, addictions,
madness, suicide, emptiness and ontology. An antidote to the
bleats of personal growth and sirens of self-improvement. The
perfect gift for the existentially disappointed.
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Klein has been playwright, activist, counsellor, cabaret writer
and performer psychiatric patient and facilitator. She wrote
her first poem aged five but on hitting adolescence her poetry
became so morose that for decades she concentrated on comedy
instead with rather more success as half of the Parker and Klein
act. A plunge back into poetry as a performance poet took the
art of the morose to a whole new level. Klein's also co-founder
of Desperate Poets Inc.
