The Further Adventures of Pete Sussman
New and Selected Poems
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You are in a darkened bedroom making love to someone you hardly know. You are hovering at the edge of an orgasm. You reach it and make a loud noise. You clench your partner hard for a time then gradually relax. The orgasm was wonderful, you think to yourself. Then you roll over onto your designated side of the bed and think: No matter how many times I do this, there will always be death.
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WHO IS PETE SUSSMAN?
Pete Sussman is HAUNTED by strange dreams, FIXATED on relationships that have slipped through his fingers, and OBSESSED by the finality of death. On top of it all, he’s just quit his job and needs to go into the hospital for surgery. How’s he going to manage without CRACKING UP?
Maybe his coworker Lisa—a.k.a. “the Countess Lisa”—will help him…Or will she just reject him like so many others in his TUMULTUOUS life?
THE WOMEN
- the SEDUCTIVE classmate!
- the SULTRY professor!
- the calculating MISTRESS!
What part do they play in the life of a man
TORTURED by the nature of consciousness
and TORMENTED by the reality of a world gone completely INSANE?
Can they help him understand the weird dreams he keeps having about the New York World’s Fair--
or at least make sure he's safely under the covers before his SLEEPING PILLS kick in?
This eclectic collection of poems (some in fixed forms, some in free verse) is the sometimes funny, sometimes SHOCKING tale of a man preoccupied by the EDGES OF LANGUAGE and the END OF MEMORY.
Writer Herb Guggenheim doesn’t let up. He’ll wring every last drop of emotion out of you then go for more. The Further Adventures of Pete Sussman is a real gut punch of a read—a searing examination of the realities of modern life—a book you’ll be talking about for years to come!
YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN!
About the Author
Herb Guggenheim was born in 1956 in Washington, DC and was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. He received his MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and his PhD from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. His poems and short stories have appeared in a number of literary magazines, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, and the Washington Review. He's the author of the chapbook Pomes, Buck Each (1994) and the audio book Understanding Pathological Narcissism (2006). Visit him on the web at http://www.herbguggenheim.com. If you'd like Herb to do a reading, lecture, or workshop for your organization--or if you'd just like to give him feedback on this book--address e-mail to herb@herbguggenheim.com.