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There is much that is surprisingly warm in this theoried and avant aesthetically conscious amalgamation. And while it surges with elitist-hip pretensions, it grooves to a back-beat of pop and populist rhythms, with many-hued chops against a background of blue. It is a cartoon philosopher and the future of anarchism railing against the bars with a baby bottle. Worth many reads. You can definitely learn from it.

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you kill me
who isn't happy to be a killing machine?,

joshua clover's meditation on small-town violence meeting today's tough issues is a profound meditation on small-town...

no matter how far we back away from ourselves this scene will not reveal itself as a movie set.

clover tails stephen wright on the going native episode, plucking observations about the state of words from the world of fin de siecle or whatever wherever with something like glee, but not glee, exactly, but without the staid proprietary stare of big time talkers in verse.

I am trying to invent a way for you to buy me back--

quote marks are so 20th c. clover's what poetry reads to itself late this afternoon.

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Okay, I can't imagine who'd want to read this book, but let's hypothetically say that you do. I see used copies everywhere--no doubt because it was thrust upon the members of the Academy of American Poets, who then relegated it to their "recycle" pile. So if you're intent on getting it, visit a thrift store, where discounted copies abound.