Love Poems For The Office

Zusatztext "Kenney's sweet, funny poems about the banal and everydaytoo-true nods to the intimacy of sharing a bed with someone without touching at all, or the nothing-speak of corporate communicationmake great presents for spouses, friends, and work wives." Vanity Fair It's a witty reflection on the humiliations of work before and during the covid-19 pandemic. The Washington Post A compendium of love poems to the we-never-thought-we'd-miss-it banality of office lifeand a few clearly recent additions to our 'offices' at home. Vanity Fair The fourth installment in John Kenney's bestselling 'Love Poems' series, this ode to office politics in the Zoom-era is spot-on, hilarious, timely, and just brilliant. GMA.com "The third installment in John Kenney's hilarious trifecta of tongue-in-cheek, laugh-out-loud poems, this New Yorker contributor's slim book pokes fun at everything we take for granted about #worklife." Katie Couric Media Maybe the release is perfect timingif readers want to fantasize about falling in love over lukewarm coffee and barely legible spreadsheets. Willamette Week Informationen zum Autor John Kenney is the New York Times bestselling author of the humorous poetry collections Love Poems for Married People , Love Poems for People with Children , and Love Poems for Anxious People , and the novels Talk to Me and Truth in Advertising , which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He has worked for many years as a copywriter. He has also been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1999. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext In the spirit of his Love Poems collections, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney returns with a hilarious new collection of poetry--for office life. With the same brilliant wit and biting realism that made Love Poems for Married People , Love Poems for People with Children , and Love Poems for Anxious People such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection that tackles the hilarity of life in the office. From waiting in line for the printer and revising spreadsheet after spreadsheet, to lukewarm coffee, office politics, and the daily patterns of your most annoying--and lovable--coworkers, Kenney masterfully captures the warmth and humor of working the "9 to 5" in today's modern era. Leseprobe A Q&A with the author Q: Your last collection, Love Poems for Anxious People, came out at almost the exact same time the coronavirus hit the United States. Now you have Love Poems for the Office and many offices are either closed or at least radically changed. Should you stop writing books? A: That's a great question, and you are not the first person to suggest that (my publisher, friends, readers, my parents). Q: What will your next untimely book title be? A: Love Poems for the Apocalypse. Q: I read your previous collection, Love Poems for Anxious People. A: Thank you. Q: I'm joking. I didn't. A: Oh. Q: Why offices? A: The idea was my editor's. My initial idea, Love Poems for Middle-Aged Poets Who Wish They Had Gone into Finance Instead of Poetry Because Now They Have Almost No Money in the Bank and Are Royally Screwed was rejected by my publisher. Q: Have you ever worked in an office? A: No, but I've certainly applied many times. As yet, I've not heard back. Q: What you've done in this book is take the mundane world of the office and turn that world into mundane poems. A: I think that's exactly ri...

"Kenney's sweet, funny poems about the banal and everyday—too-true nods to the intimacy of sharing a bed with someone without touching at all, or the nothing-speak of corporate communication—make great presents for spouses, friends, and work wives." —Vanity Fair

“It’s a witty reflection on the humiliations of work before and during the covid-19 pandemic.” –The Washington Post

“A compendium of love poems to the we-never-thought-we’d-miss-it banality of office life—and a few clearly recent additions to our ‘offices’ at home.” –Vanity Fair

“The fourth installment in John Kenney’s bestselling 'Love Poems' series, this ode to office politics in the Zoom-era is spot-on, hilarious, timely, and just brilliant.” –GMA.com

"The third installment in John Kenney’s hilarious trifecta of tongue-in-cheek, laugh-out-loud poems, this New Yorker contributor’s slim book pokes fun at everything we take for granted about #worklife." —*Katie Couric Media

“Maybe the release is perfect timing—if readers want to fantasize about falling in love over lukewarm coffee and barely legible spreadsheets.” –Willamette Week*

Autorentext
John Kenney is the New York Times bestselling author of the humorous poetry collections Love Poems for Married People, Love Poems for People with Children, and Love Poems for Anxious People, and the novels Talk to Me and Truth in Advertising, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He has worked for many years as a copywriter. He has also been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1999. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Klappentext

In the spirit of his Love Poems collections, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney returns with a hilarious new collection of poetry--for office life.

With the same brilliant wit and biting realism that made Love Poems for Married People, Love Poems for People with Children, and Love Poems for Anxious People such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection that tackles the hilarity of life in the office. From waiting in line for the printer and revising spreadsheet after spreadsheet, to lukewarm coffee, office politics, and the daily patterns of your most annoying--and lovable--coworkers, Kenney masterfully captures the warmth and humor of working the "9 to 5" in today's modern era.

Leseprobe

A Q&A with the author

Q: Your last collection, Love Poems for Anxious

People, came out at almost the exact same time the coronavirus hit the United States. Now you have Love Poems for the Office and many offices are either

closed or at least radically changed. Should you stop writing books?

A: That's a great question, and you are not the first person to suggest that (my publisher, friends, readers, my parents).

Q: What will your next untimely book title be?

A: Love Poems for the Apocalypse.

Q: I read your previous collection, Love Poems

for Anxious People.

A: Thank you.

Q: I'm joking. I didn't.

A: Oh.

Q: Why offices?

A: The idea was my editor's. My initial idea, Love Poems for Middle-Aged Poets Who Wish They Had Gone

into Finance Instead of Poetry Because Now They

Have Almost No Money in the Bank and Are Royally Screwed was rejected by my publisher.

Q: Have you ever worked in an office?

A: No, but I've certainly applied many times. As yet, I've not heard back.

Q: What you've done in this book is take the mundane world of the office and turn that world into mundane poems.

A: I think that's exactly right.

Q: You have been called the greatest poet of your generation. What's that like?

A: I have? I hadn't heard that.

Q: Wait. Sorry. That was Mary Oliver who was called the greatest poet of her generation. No one has called you anything except for some very bad names on Goodreads. Want to hear some of them?

A: I'll pass.

Hold the elevator?

If I am honest

I did see you

holding those two coffees

a file wedged under one arm.

Jill, right?

So let me explain what happened there, Jill.

I was kind of in a rush

to get back to my desk, I mean.

Not to a meeting or anything.

Just to eat my lunch

and simply space out

and watch YouTube…