Praise for Connecticut Shade:

“Tim Black’s Connecticut Shade is a 21st Century meta-Howl. Written as an antidote for writer’s block, it unleashes an interior satirical rampage through the drug-afflicted, sex-crazed American Dream gone sour. An assault on hollow materialism, it is also an attempted re-unification of the schizoid American psyche. Like William Carlos Williams’ Paterson, this book is about the microcosm of the disillusioned, disassociated individual as well as the macrocosm of our fragmenting culture of vanity and greed. It is a funny and deadly serious quest for a path of unflinching honesty that can lead to deeper values. Black holds nothing back. If you’re a fan of political correctness, then stop and back away from the text. otherwise, fasten your seat belts, buckle your chin straps, and get ready for a ride you’ll not easily forget.”

—Jim Peterson, author of Paper Crown

Connecticut Shade is the first book in the Kloefkorn Series, published by the WSC Press.

Timothy Black‘s first book, Connecticut Shade, a fusion of poetry, prose, and play, was published in 2008 by WSC Press. Tim’s poetry appeared in the journals The Platte Valley Review, The Logan House Anthology of 21st Century American Poetry, The Great American Roadshow, and Words Like Rain. In 2009, Black won the Helen W. Kenefick prize from the Academy of American Poets for his poem, Heavy Freight. In 2009, he was awarded a grant to edit and publish Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen, an anthology of student essays dealing with the experiences of war veterans in northeast Nebraska. He also completed a book of interviews with the late Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, and won a grant, restarting Linn-Benton Community College’s Journal of Student Art and Creative Writing, titled “66”. Timothy Black died in 2023.

Connecticut Shade
Timothy Black
Perfect Paperback: 96 pages
WSC Press (Feb. 26, 2010) $12
ISBN: 978-0976651376