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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."


Segue Reading Series presents
SATURDAY, 3/24 @ 4 PM
RODNEY KOENEKE & JOHN GODFREY
Bowery Poetry Club308 Bowery, just north of Houston

Rodney Koeneke is the author of Musee Mechanique, Rouge State, and a chapbook, Rules for Drinking Forties. Hobbies past and present include flarf, neo-benshi, and Poets Theater. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

John Godfrey is the author of a number of collecti... read more »
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Average rating: 4.75 · 88 ratings · 10 reviews · 6 distinct works
Musee Mechanique
4.79 of 5 stars 4.79 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Rouge State
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4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2003
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4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009
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On the Clamways (chapbook)
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004
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Model Homes by Wayne Koestenbaum
Model Homes
by Wayne Koestenbaum
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Koestenbaum steps into his cheekily arriere-garde ottava rima with the ease of an Augustan slipping into his bath. That he wants to play with the bubbles (and sometimes himself) instead of telling others how to bathe just means that he’s 21st-century...more
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Advice for Lovers by Julian Talamantez Brolaski
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Brolaski’s distressed and gilded englyssche can go “Hellespontine onna Trojan sibyl” but knows too how “to be a common man in a dent truck.” It also knows that form’s for feigning, feigning fucking, and “to feign—not to fuck a form, Arnault/Is making...more
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Mass of the Phoenix by David Brazil
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The picture here is worth a thousand words. Poet CAConrad devised a somatic ritual—“#46 Your Mina Loy Portal”—in which you expand your green heart chakra by carrying quartz; type a passage from Mina Loy’s poetry and blow it up to the size of a page;...more
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The Pyrrhaiad by Monica Peck
The Pyrrhaiad
by Monica Peck
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I thought at first Peck’s title was ironic, a Pyrrhic victory blown up to epic proportions, with maybe the suggestion that all victories are Pyrrhic, all epics about the futility of war, even (especially) for its winners.

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Well Then There Now by Juliana Spahr
Well Then There Now
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WTTN yokes together a decades’ worth of Spahr’s shorter works, linked by the locales (complete with street address and ZIP codes) in which they were written. The structure implies a thesis about place, and about the concomitant experiences of displac...more
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This Can't Be Life by Dana Ward
This Can't Be Life
by Dana Ward
read in February, 2012
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“Brittle as cinders”: That’s a phrase I just found in Stephen Rodefer’s VILLON and instantly applied to Ward’s This Can’t Be Life, which I’m tangled in the glittery hoops of right now. Three sections of the book—“Roseland,” The Squeakquel, and 2010’s...more
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Postmodern American Poetry by Paul Hoover
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We owe a debt to Paul Hoover for whatever punishing politics he went through to get this past Norton, then survive in the Balkans of small press poetry. I remember the jolt I first felt to see poets here that I’d never have imagined Nortonized: Joe C...more
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Four Lectures by Stephen Rodefer
Four Lectures
by Stephen Rodefer
read in January, 2009
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LONG FORM: I admire Rodefer’s writing as much as the next poet of my age, place, and proximity to Language, plus I knew him a little at Cambridge the year he arrived. Some of Rodefer’s earlier work in One or Two Poems from the White World and his ext...more
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The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus by Brandon Brown
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Brown’s Catullus is an experiment in translation, really an intervention to save translation from the academic taxidermists who empty, re-stuff, and try to fix the classics into their original positions. His method “resists the binary of fidelity and...more
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