Language Makes Plastic of the Body

by Andrew Choate

Poetry. CD included. The first book-length work by this South Carolinian/Southern Californian writer collects songs, essays, poetry, brief prose stories and documents from his unusual epistolary archive. Choate combines close attention to graphic detail--from page design to the evocativity of intentional misspelling--with a heightened focus on the influence of sonic texture over a words' migration between the page and the person. A wry but contagious humor underlies each piece. Includes "Laser Pointers Put the Demon in Demonstrate." Accompanying each book is a CD featuring musical renditions and other sonic performances of the work.

36 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Disco Mo]

don't take a shit where you give a shit.

[Dimitri]

I gave this book to my daughter for her twelfth birthday.

Seven consecutive random words from the Langquage are: "at Abu Ghraib. Saccharine sweetcuddles tone of."