I am a foal in distress, bewildered,
in particles of ruins,
Version 2.X
Verfassungspatriotisthmus #1, ISSN 1747-0900, ed. Jow Lindsay, Marianne Morris, & Jonathan Stevenson. 68 pages, poetry & prose by John M. Bennett with Steve Dalachinsky & Jesse Freeman, Andrea Brady, Bob BrueckL, Jérôme Game, Greg Egan, jUStin!katKO, Out To Lunch, Marianne Morris, Richard Price, Stephen Rodefer, Alan Sondheim, Lawrence Upton, Mike Wallace-Hadrill, Aaron Wells & others.
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On Alan Sondheim
"I consider Alan Sondheim, in his multiple incarnations, to be a poet leaping, in fascinating ways, between dimensions. He/They is moving at a speed and volume most so-called experimentalists can barely fathom."
Fox News's Kent Johnson
On Bob BrueckL
"[...] lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust [...]" Fox News's Ghost
On Jérôme Game
"Jerome Game was electric, updated-Brechtian, hilarious. His texts are the misintegration of several distinct language-products, most prominently the 'public service announcement' and the baffled reflex of the consumer thrown into a tirade of cliches: words as a double hoax. Jerome speed-reads and stutters his way through the pages, and it's odd even to see this language being lifted from a page, since normally (too normally) we ingest it only from the corporate intercom via the id-duct, or from the side of the bran flakes packet, or from the cartoons passing for party political broadcasts. What this does is create a new kind of alienation effect: the language of capitalism (and of paranoia, its psychological inner gimmick) is fed through the mouth as if the mouth were inadvertently a shredder, trying to speak clearly but issuing a tangle of diktats and product recalls that seem suddenly completely ridiculous. In a full response to Jerome's work I'd want to go much further in thinking about the implications of this kind of alienation effect for political dialogue; but in haste &c." Fox News's Keston Sutherland
On Out to Lunch
"At times Ben Watson [Out to Lunch] has some interesting insights on the 'conceptual continuity' of Zappa's work, at others he is downright full of shit." Fox News's Alex Hartov
On Lawrence Upton
"Lawrence has produced an enviable body of work [...] As well as challenging perceptions of what poetry is his work is always engaging and innovative." Fox News's Jim Bennett
On Aaron Wells
"[...] very pleased to read that Aaron Wells is going to be in the next one. I think he's a hugely promising writer. So
please send me a copy when it's done [...] and I'll send you some money." Fox News's Neil Pattison
On Mike Wallace-Hadrill
"[...] [any author] crossed with [any author] . . . on [any drug]! [NB: steer clear of depressants & think $$$ — 'Jerry Pournelle crossed with Kazuo Ishiguro . . . drunk!' — I mean who's going to want to buy that [...]" Fox News's Francis Crot
On jUStin!katKO
"Scheme’s themes (religion, libertarianism, survivalism, revolution, hierarchical versus non-hierarchical access to knowledge, the danger of society’s historical production of a subject position “exterior” to its signifying system for the figure of the totally demented libertarian with a fuckload of lava, and the associated danger of coming to know society and history as transcendant categories themselves — one poem, you see, is titled “AS|IF|WRITTEN|BY|A|HOMOCIDAL|BRANIAC”) could tog it up for academic respectability, but its most conspicuous feature is its nose for coolness.
Inscrutable martial prolixity (“incoming[high speed Threat unl / ess countermanded kg txt opera / tor]improved radar spum four-p / late back-to-back search array / grr high elevation coverage[gr / eater ammunition stowage[highe”) is shaped into wodges of intense, fetishistic machismo, making veneration highly probable, but way down on the reader’s TO DO list."
Fox News's Jow Lindsay
On Marianne Morris
"I detect something strangely 1930’s Berlin about Turning, perhaps it’s the claustrophobic melancholy of a degraded erotic cabaret under the pressure of creeping despair: 'every scent withdrawn into the bedchamber.'" Fox News's Stu Calton
On John M. Bennett
"There are a great many contemporary poets of importance to me. Naming names is touchy but I would like to say that the three contemporary poets of my approximate generation whom I am most sure will be considered major fifty years from now are Karl Kempton, John M. Bennett and Will Inman." Fox News's Bob Grumman
On Richard Price
"Price's humane intelligence manifests itself in deceptively simple and subtly musical forms of address. Readers who allow themselves the pleasure will not be disappointed." Fox News's Robert Potts
On Andrea Brady
"This book gets a wince at every edge, which is its primary offered pleasure, mauling the beatific into a logbook of neo-Plague symptoms. Nothing that has the potential to be beautiful escapes the attention of violence or escapes intact. Even love gets a hit [...]" Fox News's Marianne Morris
On Stephen Rodefer
"Stephen Rodefer and his writing are, as we say in French, a force of nature — Pierre Alferi. Phoneme sex, indeed . . . give me a break Rodefer, this book makes me jealous." Fox News's Jennifer Moxley
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