false 159626 1329273 1934289000 9781934289006 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182790573m/1329273.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182790573s/1329273.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1329273.Musee_Mechanique 4.74 34 Musee Mechanique is a joyous record of the words in our head, c. 2006. I love this book.” —Benjamin Friedlander ]]> 159626 4.61 72 10 2006 273835 1886350639 9781886350632 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173324250m/273835.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173324250s/273835.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273835.Rouge_State 4.25 24
The first collection from this San Francisco native includes poems which first appeared in: Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Combo, Mirage#4/Period(ical), Moria, The Muse Apprentice Guild, The San Francisco Reader, The San Jose Manual of Style, Shampoo, and VeRT

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#9

Mammogram the bildungsroman, induce
dingbat hexameters in the heldentenor's
yeasty Hornitos. Queen Ixnay to the E-bay
goes Braxton-Hicks on mother's bad milk day.
Computer's at last completely stewy-
picked up a bug at the honor bar. Citizen Quiggley
from the Gun and Doll Commission seeks flap
with pointillistic gabardine. Bad weekends for
two straight quarters-look inward and talk
to the polygraph: Have you grokked
Hampton Hawes today?

Hey, they were fisting my peoples
on the Road to Hematosis. In what woods were you,
Goody Hooper? We were mewling lords of power
in the Gallery of World Sculpture,
waving from the piazza
with the rabbi's seltzer bottle. Come, Selma
and scotchguard the rainbow
to the john of the Sunset Room. Give us an 'E'
for unpleasant Effordent. To cry 'uncle'
in a wartime theater, that

Was all our pleasure: to swap knuckles
with a gorgeous case of tartar. Yes,
we were all feeling Amish. Denver, please bring me
my omelet pan and we'll bang at the congressman's gams.
I have seen the gated community, and it looks
a lot like us. Hiss fireworks, steam
the Atlantic-green sleestack, be all that.


Rodney Koeneke was born in Omaha in 1968 and grew up in Tucson and Los Angeles. He's lived in or about San Francisco since 1986. He has published a book of history, Empires of the Mind: I.A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979 (Stanford UP, 2003) and keeps two beautiful goldfish in high style with his tall wife, Lesley Poirier. Rouge State is his first full-length poetry collection.
]]> 159626 4.61 72 10 2003 6310449 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236118853m/6310449.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236118853s/6310449.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6310449.Rules_for_Drinking_Forties 4.86 7 159626 4.61 72 10 2009 1667622 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236119038m/1667622.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236119038s/1667622.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1667622.On_the_Clamways 5.00 5 159626 4.61 72 10 2004 354999 0804748225 9780804748223 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174029590m/354999.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174029590s/354999.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/354999.Empires_of_the_Mind_I_A_Richards_and_Basic_English_in_China_1929_1979 5.00 2 Empires of the Mind tells the story of I. A. Richards, Britain’s foremost literary critic in the 1920s, and his effort to promote an 850-word version of “global” English in China. Examining the cultural milieu of Cambridge between the World Wars, where Richards’s internationalist vision first arose, this book traces the heretofore-unexplored connections between Richards's literary theories and his political ideals. Richards’s time in China covers a volatile period in Chinese history: the Japanese occupation, the Communist revolution, and the beginnings of the Cold War all feature prominently in the history of Basic English over a fifty-year period.

Koeneke considers Richards’s project in the light of current theories about imperialism: Did Basic English anticipate today’s multicultural aspirations for global exchange? Or did it advance new “empires of the mind” whose spoils are language and information? Ultimately, the history of Richards’s time in China offers a crucial window onto the postcolonial complexities of our own.

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