Muskrat Friday Dinner is an honest exploration of what it takes to live a creative life right now. These poems are wry and thoughtful, shot through with self-deprecating sincerity and an insistent intelligence that is as kind as it is incisive. Silsbe captures the comradery of the drinking life as well as the loneliness. He confronts the challenges of balancing the demands and disappointments of work and love and family across decades and miles with both humor and insight. His is a Pittsburgh where people work hard, laugh long, drink well, and make the best art they can in the time they are allowed. "There is in these poems the sound of old records, the crackle of the needle riding warped vinyl, the fullness of that delicate, spinning thing. These poems smell of cheap, warm beer and the long-gone smoke from steel mills and cigarettes. Take this book into the next dive bar you walk into and press it into the bartender's closed fist. Watch that fist open up. See the nod of the head, the recognition in these poems of everything that is real and necessary in our world." — Peter Markus, author of The Fish and the Not Fish

Muskrat Friday Dinner

Literature & Fiction

Silsbe, Scott

Poetry

White Gorilla Press

"Scott Silsbe is one of my favorite working poets. The bulk of his poems are born of personal and intimate moments, yet Silsbe's precise and conversational language invites us in, makes us feel welcome, and the joys and sorrows found here become our own. Each piece quietly shines with a love for literature, music, friendship, for life itself. Reading Scott's poems feels like having him tell you stories over numerous beers throughout the wee hours. Stories sad, funny, and engagingly human; stories you'll remember in the morning." -William Taylor Jr., author of Pretty Things to Say"I've been sitting here for a while trying to write about Scott Silsbe's new book, Meet Me Where We Survive. I try phrases like 'fiercely human' and 'ripe with intimate treasures, ' but realize that's not close to getting to it, and everything I try sounds trite and lazy. So here's the truth about this dazzling book: it made me want to write. Four poems came from my reading this. Blame Scott for that if you like, but do not ignore this book. It's fabulous, and really is fiercely human and ripe with intimate treasures, as you'll soon see for yourself." -Jeff Weddle, author of Advice for Cannibals﻿"Scott Silsbe is a master at creating interesting and thought-provoking poems out of events that have occurred in his life. His friends and acquaintances become your friends and acquaintances through his poems. He has the innate ability to make a reader understand and feel like they were there for the discussion, the reading, the party, the rock show, the whatever was going on. This collection, Meet Me Where We Survive, is a treasure chest of these experiences-it is a pirate's booty. -Joseph Shields, Nerve Cowboy Magazine

Meet Me Where We Survive

Kung Fu Treachery Press

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Muskrat Friday Dinner

Meet Me Where We Survive