Get In The Mother Lovin' Car [Mass Market Paperback]

Chris Zimmerly (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 86 pages
• Publisher: rate.; 1 edition (November 11, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0963800507
• ISBN-13: 978-0963800503
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,231,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Onomonpoetic Overdrive!, December 13, 1999

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chimpie chimpsalot (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Get In The Mother Lovin' Car (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is not for the meek of heart. I liked it because Zimmerly has pulled all the stops and speaks to the reader with a voracity most arthors search for all their life. One can read snippets that cling to you all day, then come back and continue later like you never set it down. And the overall design of the book from page to page really brings the book to life. Simply put, amazing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get In., March 3, 2000

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rufus fulton young (just over yonder) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Get In The Mother Lovin' Car (Mass Market Paperback)

Come on. Travel with chris zimmerly through a wreckage-dotted landscape that is still full of life, hope and divine potential. Get in the car. The Mother Lovin' Car has room for you, your goals, your daydreams and ideals. Get in the car; Zimmerly will take you where you want to go, but more importantly, he will take you where you _need_ to go on the way.

Sometimes heavy-handed in his admonitions for social and personal evolution, Zimmerly still compels readers to reflect on the maelstrom of memes he pushes through the pages. With frenetic design by Deon Staffelbach, Get In the Mother Lovin' Car translates Zimmerly's over-the-top intensity into a tangible form. Wild juxtapositions of fonts, images and other graphic elements give this book an aesthetic that matches the words of this self-proclaimed "Drunk Texan screaming at the top of [his] lungs." Zimmerly's poetry is an exploration of travel, both internal and worldly. From the pained confessions in "Rain On Sttttttuttering Rain Cloud" to the eerie stream-of-consciousness work of "San Francisco Lawn Mower Poem," the Mother Lovin' Car races down roads that are sometimes frightening to navigate. But the Z'Evolutionary Revolutionary delivers readers safely. In new forms, as "angels-realizing" perhaps, but safely.

By offering perspectives on everything from abortion rights and sex education to the inherent angelic nature of humanity, Chris Zimmerly tries to put the world in 74 pages. "Swinging harp ax/swinging angelic trunk" this poet succeeds more often than many other post postmodern scribes trapped in the numbing echoes of misinterpreted Beat intimations and over-dubbed copies of Dead Poets' Society, steeped in the utter apathy of late-20th century pop culture. So get in the mother lovin' car; i promise Zim will hold the door for you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, March 2, 2000

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Carl Boberg (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Get In The Mother Lovin' Car (Mass Market Paperback)

Ive read some in my time but never anything like this! I recomend the authors suggestion about reading it in the bathroom, or any other secluded space where time has the ability to slow down. Up here in Sweden (where I live) it is nice to be able to flee from the cold winter and dive in to the spaced-out mind of Zim :) What I like is that most of the poems are like stories and vice versa, it feels like they contain a message, but what that message is depends on who You are... Dont be scared of the "out-there" style, just read it again and again... There is alot in there that is worth to ponder. Zimmery rules!