The Garrett Caples Reader

by Garrett Caples

Poetry. When is a poet's first book a reader? When you're Garrett Caples, whose poetic persona is often-perverse, decidedly-decisive, randomly-rule-breaking and impoetically-casual. Yet, through it all, the reader experiences the pleasures and charms of reading a forbidden journal, written by a smart young writer. "Caples is part of a younger generation of writers reinvigorating contemporary poetry by combining modernist and Language-poetic verbal angularity with the sheer enthusiasm and lustiness of adolescence"—Publishers Weekly.

98 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Amy]

I orange everything about this book--the concept, the poems, the fonts, the hilarious title & cover art & design. AND to top it all off, some time after getting this book, I discover, to my delight, on Laura Moriarty's blog, an orange introduction of the poet by Brian Strang:

http://atonalistdoc.blogspot.com/sear...

[Greg Bem]

I felt my insides colored pink by text breathed through thorough energies.