Yellowrocket
Poems
4 June 2010
Description
“Sure to be a classic, and the beginning of a long and glorious career.”—Sherman Alexie
Increasingly, Todd Boss has been attracting attention, with poems in the Paris Review and The New Yorker and a series in Poetry. His first collection, set in the Midwest, alternately features a childhood Wisconsin farm, the record-breaking storm that destroyed it, and the turbulent marriage that recalls it. Love and wonder mingle in these lines.
Reviews
"Boss’s writing aches with subtle music, insight, and clear-sighted compassion. . . . If you only buy one book of poetry this year, make it Yellowrocket." — Christian Science Monitor
"Like Frost, Todd Boss uses the hardships and beauty of farm life to examine the rough fabric of human connection." — Dorianne Laux. author of Facts About the Moon
Also By: Todd Boss 
Someday the Plan of a Town: Poems
Hardback, 2022
Poems of wayfaring and wayfinding, recovery and discovery, from “one of the best poets of his generation” (Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post).
Someday the Plan of a Town: Poems
E Book, 2022
Poems of wayfaring and wayfinding, recovery and discovery, from “one of the best poets of his generation” (Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post).
Tough Luck: Poems
Paperback, 2019
“[Todd Boss]’s poems generate their own rambunctious music and remind us ‘yes, / miracles happen.’ ”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Tough Luck: Poems
E Book, 2017
“Tough Luck is funny and philosophical and wry and large-hearted, and it’s our great good luck to have it.”—Beth Ann Fennelly
Pitch: Poems
Paperback, 2013
2012 Poetry Midwest Booksellers Choice Award winner
"[Todd Boss] can make any rhyme feel like a concealed weapon." —Sherman Alexie