Charles Sweetman

Enterprise, Inc. Charles Sweetman

"What a sly and nimble book, smiling with a mouth full of fangs. Sweetman's casual, chummy lines lead one cheerfully into a cubicled inferno where the damned-knights, kings, and cowboys, yet never quite corner office material-slog in the long shadows of upper management, neck-deep in leadership plans, always aware that they lack some essential 'intangible assets,' yet incorrigibly optimistic, prepared to be lifted into the light of success. They're shallow, lost, and easy to like. This is satire at its best: sweet-tongued and fierce."-Marshall N. Klimasewiski "The enterprise here is in the way Chuck Sweetman gets the voices from-gives voice to-those denizens of the contemporary counting houses seldom heard in contemporary poetry: the white-collared, computer-screened, entry-leveled, and encubicled.... The job-submerged, the heroes of the subtle resistance, the fantasists-by-necessity, the artists-in-waiting pictured here make up a world to which (and in which) readers may find themselves drawn."-Jason Sommer