A Question for the King

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.