Ashes in Paradise
Broken Signals
Jeff Friedman is a great liar and an even greater comedian. As a liar he remembers everything and nothing from the last two thousand years. As a comedian, he knows hyperbole, pacing, irony, and all the others. He can’t fool me though, he’s a true poet and those are facades. If he had written nothing but “Poem for Ross Gay.” If he had written nothing but “My Shammai.”
—Gerald Stern
