Fudge

86 pages
5 × 7″ - perfect bound paperback

Andrew Weatherhead’s tasty, bite size poems capture the flavor of contemporary life in a way most poetry doesn’t. I can’t think of anyone else who could make a poem about a four hour wait ‘On Hold with NBA League Pass Customer Support’ so thoroughly entertaining. His voice deftly balances breezy with barbed. This is a poetry for a world where “You can’t trust the leaders/ And you can’t trust the followers” – and where, “Art beats Nature, every time.”

— Elaine Equi

Deft and giddy. Like light through a prism, Fudge renders life in splintering color. I wish I had a pair of glasses that outlines the details that Andrew Weatherhead sees.

— Nicolette Polek

Uncannily potent for how restrained. My favorite working poet.

— Sean Thor Conroe

Here are poems of dailiness, poems as dalliance, poems to remind you of the ways you’re waiting without claiming to be or even know that thing you’re waiting for. They’re perfect.

— Kyle Beachy

Hey, what is attention? In Andrew Weatherhead’s work, attention blows the whistle on its own habit of gerrymandering what does and doesn’t escape notice. Attention might be able to attend to its own absence, might see its own shadow, and a lot of unreclaimed human truth blunders through in moments of distraction, boredom, clumsiness of mind. The poor customer service might actually be coming from inside the house! And for me, “Last Poem” might as well be everyone’s. Give it (this terse, funny, stupid, stupid-brilliant work) a go!

— Jon Woodward

Excerpts

NY Tyrant | Hollow Points

Muumuu House | Things the Photoshop Instructor Said and Did

AndrewWeatherhead.com | 18 Pandemic Haiku

AndrewWeatherhead.com | Last Poem

Interviews and Reviews

Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb | Q&A with Andrew Weatherhead

Fck Yr Bookclub | Review: The Sweet Bitter

De Mode Magazine (print) | Review + Interview: Fudge by Andrew Weatherhead

Scud Lit | Review: Fudge by Andrew Weatherhead

— Molly Brodak

TODD eases us in deceptively, only to beat our brains in on the final pages. The book’s masterpiece, “The Origin of the World,” a poem created out of lines from blurbs on books that happened to be in Weatherhead's room one day in 2012, leaves the reader shellshocked and overwhelmed. The best way I can describe this book is to ask you to imagine a giant’s hands placed on top of a tornado. Just as a ceramicist pushes down clay to control it as the wheel turns, the giant’s hands mute the storm. Andrew Weatherhead is the giant and TODD is the tornado.

— Robyn O'Neil

TODD is one of my favorite new books by one of my favorite writers. Endlessly inventive, full of stunning lines, and somehow playful while being deadly serious about our current times. I didn't want it to end.

— Shane Jones

TODD is an unassuming, inventive, fun-to-read reminder of language’s infinite capacity for utter weirdness. Emotional but not self-indulgent, moving but not lame, funny but not cheap, Weatherhead has successfully created a rare work of art.

— Jordan Castro

Excerpts

The Fanzine | The Origin of the World

Me Reading Stuff Podcast | The Origin of the World (audio)

Leveler | Deadass

Radioactive Moat | from 1,000 Words

Paper Bag Magazine | from 1,000 Words

Western Beefs | 20 Two-Word Poems

Press and Interviews

The Creative Independent | On hijacking language

Poetry Foundation | Reading List: October 2018

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Cats and Dogs (Out of Print)

Weatherhead's Cats and Dogs features plain-spoken, tragicomic koans for the 21st century. Voiced by a solitary city-dweller, these poems borrow haiku's small, startling observations, but with an eye for metropolitan life: its bus rides and apartment building rooftops. By turns graceful and artfully clumsy, Weatherhead's lines find their way to an honesty I enjoy and admire. Perhaps his gift for understatement is contagious; I want to tap poetry readers on the shoulder and say Listen--this book--you might want to take it home when what I mean is Read this immediately.

— Heather Christle

I’ve long thought of Weatherhead as one of my favorite writer’s writer’s writers, which by that I mean I love the way he sees the world. Through an array of styles and tones that together tread that nebulously majestic area between imagination and emotion, humor and reflection, fact and hope, Cats and Dogs bears evidence of a voice that came prepared for anything, and one that makes the world more bearable by simply knowing it exists.

— Blake Butler

These are beautiful poems because they're true. Andrew James Weatherhead writes poems that mock, exalt, and describe, sometimes all in the same poem ---they take amazing leaps, but you never feel that the ground has shifted under your feet. His voice very calmly tells you what you didn't think you needed to know.

— Matthew Rohrer

Excerpts

Painted Bride Quarterly | Poem for my neighbor’s bird, which I took care of for 10 days while they were in Turkey

Everyday Genius | 2 Poems

Augury Books | Playing Tennis Against a Wall

Juked | Something that Happened in Brooklyn

Banango Street | A Letter

Press and Interviews

VICE | Andrew James Weatherhead Proves You Don’t Have to Share Every Single Thing That Comes Into Your Mind

Monster Children | Andrew James Weatherhead’s Cats and Dogs

The Fanzine | 100% ANIMALS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW JAMES WEATHERHEAD