Advice for Cannibals

by Jeff Weddle

The latest collection by award winning poet Jeff Weddle ( There's More to It Than That ) showcases the poet's astounding observation of the rapidly deteriorating human condition. Whether watching a cat or ruminating on a relationship writ large, Weddle's poems pull the rug of comfort out from the reader to send us crashing to the floor to look for scattered crumbs of hope. This is poetry that makes us look at what we are.
It's beautifully image driven and his sense of irony combined with a view deep into the human spirit are killer combinations. - Pris Campbell

128 pages, Paperback

Published February 28, 2022

About the author

Jeff Weddle grew up in Prestonsburg, a small town in the hill country of Eastern Kentucky. He has worked as a public library director, disc jockey, newspaper reporter, Tae Kwon Do teacher, and fry cook, among other things. His first book, Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press (University Press of Mississippi, 2007), won the Eudora Welty Prize and helped inspire Wayne Ewing's documentary, The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press (Wayne Ewing Films, 2007), for which Weddle served as associate producer. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in dozens of venues, including the anthologies Mondo Barbie (St. Martin, 1993) and Stovepiper Book One (Stovepiper Books, 1994). Weddle is the author of a poetry collection, Betray the Invisible (OEOCO, 2010), a limited-edition, fine press book handcrafted by master book artist Mary Ann Sampson, and a chapbook of Barbie poems, Not Another Blonde Joke (Implosion Press, 1991). Jeff Weddle is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama.