Moeller, Sean: Plain Clothes Hamburlgar

Rejection Letters, paperback

Publication Date: March 11, 2025

Publisher Marketing: 

There are three official shapes of McNuggets: bone, boot, bell and ball.

PLAIN CLOTHES HAMBURGLAR is a collection of nuggets that come in those shapes, but also bush, butt, broccoli and bobcat. There might even be some brains, or boogers.

In PlAIN CLOTHES HAMBURGLAR, Sean Moeller captures the moment of when an epiphany exists just on the other side of consciousness. The kind of daydream that shows up when our defenses are down, revealing a deeper truth that gives our language new meaning. In this genre-bending, medium-bending achievement, we get to see what a singular voice truly sounds like in our modern moment. —Taylor Goldsmith, lead singer of Dawes

Delectable & dense (like dessert), tasting of beer & babies (like life), these prose poems or lyric fictions or whatever the hell you want to call them chew up and spit out folksy aphorisms, sing them to elegies, then launch all the way to ecstasy, to eternity. The God of things is in the walls, under the car, laughing through every line of Sean Moeller’s PLAIN CLOTHES HAMBURGLAR. I mean, holy fucking shit, Sean. —Rachel Yoder, author of NIGHTBITCH