Poetry. Radically comic, formally inventive, and ridiculously smart, every 8 to 10 years Kevin Davies releases a new book reminding us just how une...
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Mar 18, 2009
Scot
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I came across a passage from this book of poetry in a review in The Nation some weeks ago, and was so taken by the hyperlinking of ideas and sounds, the flow of words upon the page, and the abrupt shifts in tone and reference as it careened along, that I wanted to savor more of this author's work. So I tracked this volume down, and I wasn't disappointed.
Don't try to read it all at once, and don't try to get literal meaning from every phrase and reference. Listen to the sounds (in yo More...
Don't try to read it all at once, and don't try to get literal meaning from every phrase and reference. Listen to the sounds (in yo More...
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Mar 19, 2010
Noriyuko 'Pat'
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A funny, profound, rage-filled book...informed, it seems, equally by the failure of innovative poetry to make anything happen (thus the almost painfully 'in-crowd', wilfully obscure references to figures including Pound and Lorine Niedecker) as it is by the Bush-era political landscape following the attack on the twin towers...
...the language here sputters, rages, puns, shocks, delights...ultimately a rather nihilist work, though, in that Davies insistently acknowledges the book's ow More...
...the language here sputters, rages, puns, shocks, delights...ultimately a rather nihilist work, though, in that Davies insistently acknowledges the book's ow More...
Jun 04, 2009
Joe
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More greatness from Mr. Davies. The book length piece focuses around three formal structures: bullets("'Floater'"), | marks(Remnants of Wilma), and numbers(One-Eyed Seller of Garlic). In btwn two larger self contained sections titled: Lateral Argument, and Duckwalking Perimeter. Over the course of the book the three formal structures begin to converge into each other, blurring the lines of their relative autonomies, as we continue to investigate the contemporary scape of the neoliberal
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Jan 05, 2010
Nicole
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I would give this book really a 3 and a half. I think that its an interesting text in the way Davies has laid it out. I saw it as not only a poetry book but as well as a prose and as an interactive piece. Some of the lines are wonderful and the way he structures phrases or words together that aren't supposed to make sense but do. Why did I give it a 3 and a half? Because while I think the book is def above average its not amazing. Its in between.
Jul 05, 2009
Andy
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Irony is taken for granted these days, which makes it safe and boring. Davies' irony is not safely detached--it's invested, involved, energetic. The thoughtfulness extends to a (too-rare) attention to form on large and small scales that makes reading the book a complex and continually surprising experience. Some of the best stuff around: socially critical, funny, makes me feel weird.
Jul 04, 2009
Chad
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Kevin Davies is one of my favorite poets. If you don't know who he is, please check out "Pause Button" free for download (PDF) on Ubuweb.com. Then pick up a copy of this book.
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