Some Common Weakness Illustrated, Carson Cistulli's first book, is a series of unexpected meditations on overlooked parts of life. Combining formalism with poetic experiment, his poems shed light on his peculiar condition of feeling that he is trapped inside of a poem while being addicted to sports-basketball and baseball in particular. In these poems language seems to replace meaning, while feeding our spectacular, collective appetite for the truth. Yale Series Poetry Award Winner, Loren Goodman writes: Carson Cistulli's book of poems is like the rabbit that pulls the magician into his hat. It is like an enormous handkerchief spewing out colorful severed hands. It is like the woman who uses her naked body to cut saws in half.
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Format:Paperback
Especially recommended reading for avant garde poetry enthusiasts, "Some Common Weaknesses" is a compendium of poetry by author and radio show host Carson Cistulli whose work is characterized by deftly crafted free verse and prose poem commentaries on the commonplace in life. 'Postgame Comments by Celtics' Captain Paul Pierce as an Approach to the Creative Process': People don't understand what/the game of poetry is all about/Pierce said its/a physical war/but people don't understand/the psychology of the poetry/I was just trying to/get my poetry fired up/get my emotions into my/poetry and poetry/responded
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I found these poems very satisfying. Of all the books I own, I'd estimate that this one has the highest pleasure-to-text ratio.
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Hilarious, poignant, insightful, subversive, amiable, self-conscious, effervescent, fangraphy, punctuated, words, written, stuff, other stuff, baseball. Yes please. I'll take another.
