More Songs the Radio Won’t Play

Lyrical poetry inspired by popular songs, Rogal sweeps the reader through the journey of creation. In More Songs the Radio Won’t Play , Stan Rogal takes formerly “popular” tunes (from various genres) and transforms them. Self-referentiality; mashups of the erudite and profane; allusions to other arts and sciences; the insertion and bending of biographical and historical facts; problematic snippets of philosophy and literary theory, quotes, and bastardizations; deploying non- or a-political langu