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Rodney Koeneke

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Author of the poetry collections Rules for Drinking Forties (Cy Press, 2009), Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006), and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003). Once wrote an expensive study of I.A. Richards in China. I think it's awful to have to rate books among friends on a point 'n' click five-star system, so I give everything a five, but also a "review."


Average rating: 4.73 · 93 ratings · 10 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
Musee Mechanique
4.79 of 5 stars 4.79 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
Rouge State
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4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2003
Rules for Drinking Forties ...
4.82 of 5 stars 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009
On the Clamways (chapbook)
4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004
Empires of the Mind: I. A. ...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003
Flarf Orchestra
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4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
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Description: from ROUGE STATE

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Of Piscator by Martin Corless-Smith
Corless-Smith seems closer to the home sources of his inspiration here than in some of his later books: the minor English lyric, short, thin, and never far from the pastoral, loosed from its metrical corset and numbing set of rhymes. There’s enough d...more
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Wheel with a Single Spoke by Nichita Stănescu
In the course of his own translations from Serbian, Stanescu created one of the best metaphors for poetry in translation I’ve ever encountered: the star-like cracks in a pane of glass “broken by an invisible stone.” Sean Cotter includes it in his dia...more
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Iran Documents by Marianne Morris
Iran Documents
by Marianne Morris
read in April, 2013
“regarding the inability to achieve present tense
I take my feet and hair to Iran and then move them around.”


That oblique approach to time and the self is typical of Morris’s syncopated take on familiar lyric themes in Iran Documents, which undercuts...more
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Vile Lilt by Nada Gordon
Vile Lilt
by Nada Gordon
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Gordon gilds, goads, and plants her lily banner in the stretchy integument between midrash and midriff, “saucy pose” and “primal cream.” A prismatic manifesto of Poofism and Femmage, Vile Lilt pits its laced proliferations against the “effrontery of...more
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Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Bluets
by Maggie Nelson
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Belle-lettrist in the best sense, Bluets moves lightly from philosophy to etymology to erotics to autobiography without landing for long on any one, with blue as connecting thread but also armature for an elegant, decidedly Old World prose studded wi...more
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Margaret and Dusty by Alice Notley
Margaret and Dusty
by Alice Notley
read in January, 2013
Margaret and Dusty is Notley at her New York Schooliest, working conversational snippets, postcards, family in-jokes, kid talk, pop reference, and relaxed-fit erudition into the basic framework of the Romantic lyric: the adventure of a strongly limne...more
Rodney said "yes" to attending Canessa Park Reading Series
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date: April 19, 2013 07:30PM
location: Canessa Park Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA, The United States
description: Canessa Park Reading Series
featuring Norman Fischer, Rodney Koeneke, Paul Vangelisti
7:00pm doors; 7:30pm reading
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708 Montgomery Street
San Francisco
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