“Andrew Shaffer is a mood.”
“This book made me infertile. It was either this book or the vasectomy I had around the same time I was reading it. Either way, buyer beware.”
“The best thing about Andrew Shaffer’s chapbook is the cover. It’s all downhill from there.... Seriously. He tries to pass off several children’s jokes about farts and witches as poems.... Read Amanda Gordon [sic] or Billy Collins instead.”
LOOK MOM I’m A POET (AND SO IS MY CAT)
8th Circle Press (2021)
“Like a terrible accident scene that I felt ashamed for staring at [...] except the book was funny and accident scenes aren’t. Also, what a cute cat!”
For fans of SNL’S DEEP THOUGHTS BY JACK HANDEY and BILLY COLLINS, the Goodreads Choice Awards-nominated book of humorous poetry from New York Times bestseller Andrew Shaffer
In his first full-length poetry collection featuring over five dozen new and selected poems, humorist Andrew Shaffer explores our modern world from Fortnite (“I don’t care”) to pretentious Instagram poets (“Lord Byron would have drunk wine from your hipster skull”).
Look Mom I’m a Poet (and So Is My Cat) is playful, hilarious, and accessible to readers who don’t know poetry from a hole in the ground.*
144 pages of new and collected poems. With original B&W photos by the author.
$16.99 US (trade paperback) • $7.99 US (eBook) • $25 US (library hardcover)
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-949769-14-2 • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-949769-37-1
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*Holes in the ground are filled with snakes. As every verse jockey worth their meter knows, there are no snakes in poems.
Yeah, this is now an AWARD-NOMINATED book. Deal with it.
NOTE: Twenty-six of the poems in this collection were originally published in the chapbook Let’s See Them Poems from Dime House. Over three dozen of the poems in this volume are new.