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Poetry. Deftly combining toughboy wit with a kind of hyper-awareness of language usually only found in Language poets, Kevin Davies' COMP. is a bri... read full description

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Jan 13, 2009
Joe rated it: 5 of 5 stars
In "Comp." Davies employs language to move, or work, throug the use of parataxis. We experience this in the aperture of the first section, "If you don't believe in science, don't misquote it / / / Just keep staring into that English-language night sky"(1-2) Here we see the use of enjambment and white space to enable a complication of the sentence, both in structure and in content. The lack of belief in science is the lack of belief in reified logic and this void, as we might More...
May 08, 2008
Carrie rated it: 5 of 5 stars
totally postmodern, but like in reality.
Feb 27, 2008
Anselm rated it: 5 of 5 stars
sexually attracted to the head-wound type
Dec 17, 2009
Mitch rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Hilarious and exceedingly condensed.
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