- ISBN: 9780889843509 | 0889843503
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/1/2012
Kenneth Sherman's collection Words for Elephant Mandelves into the fascinating life of Joseph Merrick, the titular 'Elephant Man' who came to prominence as a sideshow curiosity in England in the late nineteenth century. Sherman's spare, captivating verse gives a voice to Merrick's fraught and complex existence, and couples it with a genuine compassion quite distant from the chill of a gawking public.