Written in the blood of memories and fears and dreams, the poems in Forked Tongue will open your eyes--whether you like it or not--to the dark corners of our world and our minds. These poems are not safe. These poems are not your friend. The sinful, somber and surreal poems in Craig Sernotti's first collection will leave you feeling dirty, ashamed for wanting more.
Forked Tongue
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Craig Sernotti lives and writes and edits in New Jersey.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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There's no shortage humor in the state of the world. "Forked Tongue" is the world through the poetic eyes of Craig Sernotti, as he creatively spins a tale about the world and what's around it. "Forked Tongue" is a collection that shouldn't be overlooked. "Prayers": Our hair is ash./Our nails are missing.//We are bound and gagged and tied to trees./The trees are cardboard cutouts of trees.//Our prayers rise into the gray sky./The clouds open and it rains dead gods.
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Sernotti's poems are nothing if not intense. To hold this collection in your hands is to have been granted unlimited access to someone else's dream journal, a prospect of nasty voyeurism it is impossible to resist, and THAT is what will make you read it. I spied a comparison to Kerouac in an earlier review, but to make such a reference is to be left barking up the wrong Beat. These poems are more like the small-dose scattered shrapnel of an exploded Burroughs routine, rife with that same spirit of dark eroticism and Freudian anxieties of genital mutilation. When Sernotti holds us down at the wrists and forces us to eavesdrop on the casual exchanges taking place hourly, among the strangers who probably sit next to you on the bus, the effect is exquisitely unsettling, as though your grandmother has just caught you masturbating. By the time the reader reaches the holy trinity of "Three Kinds of Sadness," "Noah," and "Animals," the journey has already become the destination. These poems have a power to manipulate the reader. Sernotti will make you his priest, and then he will make you his whore. By the end, you feel nicely spent, but a little used, like after a good hard lay. Still, you sense he's just getting started, and Forked Tongue is merely foreplay.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Forked Tongue is, in a word, amazing. Combining absurdist humour à la Boris Vian, and a stream-of-consciousness style of writing much in the same vein as Jack Kerouac, the reader is taken along a river of words and ideas that are at once silly, colourful, and incredibly engaging.
One sees many parallels in this with the works of Kerouac, Vian and Huysmans, in that the absurdity of the prose also contains a darker undertone and frequent double entendres. Best enjoyed in the company of good friends or a good gin and tonic, the humour contained with Sernotti's debut will truly soothe the soul and ease the burden of life.
If you're looking for something to truly stretch your mind and provide a good laugh, read this. It's well worth every dollar spent!
One sees many parallels in this with the works of Kerouac, Vian and Huysmans, in that the absurdity of the prose also contains a darker undertone and frequent double entendres. Best enjoyed in the company of good friends or a good gin and tonic, the humour contained with Sernotti's debut will truly soothe the soul and ease the burden of life.
If you're looking for something to truly stretch your mind and provide a good laugh, read this. It's well worth every dollar spent!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Consider me forked
For someone that isn't as poetically precise, I was completely enamored with this book, in the only crude way one can be. Read more
Published on June 30, 2010 by Euphoria_
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sexy Surrealism Sometimes Silly
Craig is a hell of a poet. He writes with razor-edge precision. There's really never a moment where I was left wondering "What the hell is he talking about? Read more
Published on May 21, 2010 by Misener
5.0 out of 5 stars
French kiss with caution
With FORKED TONGUE, Craig Sernotti continues his conquest of the literate one poem at a time. He's not taking prisoners either. Read more
Published on May 17, 2010 by Brian Rosenberger
5.0 out of 5 stars
FORK YOU attitude
Craig Sernotti's FORKED TONGUE is not filled with happy homilies or, what Ben Franklin called "light extemporania. Read more
Published on April 27, 2010 by G Warlock Vance
