Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse

by Anne Boyer
Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse
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2006 by Effing Press
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Rodney
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07/29/07

bookshelves: poetry
Read in December, 2006
Hors d’œuvre to her forthcoming full-length, The Romance of Happy Workers, Boyer's Apocalypse sends a zippy rain of frogs and fire on the notion of Culture as an extractive industry, plagued with the same brutes and Romans busy wrecking the commons everywhere else. "When I smell Arthur Daniels Midland/it is as if an oligarchy has dived into the wreck," or "imagine if Anne Frank/were just another educator for Planned Parenthood/parking her big white car.&quo...more
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Eddie
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05/01/08

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I'll have to read this again, but for some reason I like it more than Romance of Happy Workers. Maybe there's something more unhinged about it that appeals to me.
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Ssimonds23
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07/21/07

Read in March, 1986
recommends it for: Young Lovers
Anne rocks!
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Dusie Press
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07/10/07

recommends it for: all
I loved it, great layout and design and of course excellent poetry! I will write more here soon!!!
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Matthew
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07/10/07

Brilliant, but more on the way.
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