Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Description

"A revolutionary."- The Stranger "Stimulating and exciting."- The San Francisco Bay Guardian "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass-from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious."-Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You Tao Lin-author of the underground sensation Eeeee Eee Eeee -continues his deadpan existential-slapstick style with poems featuring titles such as: "I will learn to love a person and then I will teach you and then we will know" and "hamsters are heads with little characteristics on the head, part one." It is, in short, a book of poetry in which the author attempts in a calm, sympathetic, and at times sarcastic tone, to explain to himself the possible origins and cures of anger, worry, frustration, obsession, and confusion-while concurrently experiencing those things. Tao Lin is the poetry editor for 3 a.m. magazine , and proprietor of the blog Reader of Depressing Books . His stories and poems have appeared in Mississippi Review , Cincinnati Review , Other Voices , Punk Planet , and many other magazines. Lin, author of the novel Eeeee Eee Eeee and the short story collection Bed , was born in 1983.