Powder Town

"Powder Town burns with wit, richness of language and idiom, and a droll but invigorating intelligence and humor. Lazar's various speakers place us in mid-century America, and earlier, the film noir subjects and textures resonating in glorious black & white and preserving our smudged collective soul, the everyman/ woman lost in the lost city. At every turn, Lazar risks clarity, and his use of by-gone jargon is resonant, playful and serious, existential and lyric. These prose poems cast a look back at our history, with hope and hopelessness combined." -Christopher Buckley