The Last Decent Jukebox in America

In poems that call out to Joe Strummer and Otis Redding, Walt Whitman and William Matthews, freegans and SHARPs, mosh pits and the quiet just before sleep, The Last Decent Jukebox in America moves from dive bars and punk bands’ tour vans to political rallies and domestic scenes with a seamless ease. Along the way, Doug Cox carves out a syntax and a rhythm at once uniquely his own and confidently in conversation with the traditions and predecessors he’s built upon toward this remarkable debut collection.