The Shunt
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The Shunt
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Poetry. "With its stutters, fractures, puns, sarcasms, and ironies, THE SHUNT is part of a cluster of books recently written by US poets attempting... read full description

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Mar 24, 2010
Rodney rated it: 5 of 5 stars
A guy walks into a bar during a war, says he’s a writer, orders a drink, then another, then another, tells a couple bad jokes, blows the punchlines, starts to slur and the slurs make puns, comes to find out it’s not a bar at all but a country, and not really a joke but a war, but a war that’s like a bad joke in its “repetition … dash …com … pulsion,” discovers he’s “historically conditioned/to’ve become a joke/at one’s own expense,” turns the punchlines to maps through the aporia of that, aims t More...
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Sep 27, 2009
CAConrad rated it: 5 of 5 stars
LOVE IT!
I've created a (Soma)tic Reading Enhancement for it, which you can see at the ATTENTION SPAN 2009 List here: http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/0...

THIS IS AN AMAZING YEAR FOR POETRY!
CAConrad
http://CAConrad.blogspot.com






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Jan 29, 2010
Laura rated it: 5 of 5 stars
a study of a body as a system in systems, all in meltdown. breakdowns in concentric breakdowns. when reading, for some reason i kept thinking about resiliency and health. whose health? where is health? health's a cult.
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Jul 04, 2009
Chad rated it: 4 of 5 stars
This book wins for most appropriate cover of the year. The awkwardness you feel reading this book in public is roughly equivalent to that nagging feeling that you, as an American, are somehow implicated in the death and maiming of innocent civilians being carried out in your name throughout the world.

The fact that those two feelings are somehow equivocal is equally problematic - and that is one of the many paradoxes this book seeks to confront through its consistently failing humor. I More...
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