An odd collection of deconstructional poetry experiments and other less-confusing musings.
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What's at stake in Kevin Sampsell's writing is language and its close proximity to the cusp of danger--too close to bodies, violence, deviance, pleasure, excess. His forms deform and reform poetry, from the dead echoes of Whitman and William Carlos Williams to the voice of a hooker down on the corner and back to Courtney love. He manages to infiltrate consumer culture with complex weaponry, and in that effort he shows us the inside out of the bodies we've bought. He is unflinching in his drive to open the word up to its inner workings. Blasted open, language comes alive again in its most pre-animate chaos. Remember when reading undid you? Sampsell asks us--half nostalgically and half with fierce vengeance--to read again.
Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Her Other Mouths and Editor of two girls review -- Reviewer
About the Author
Kevin Sampsell lives in Portland, Oregon. His stories, poems, collages, and journalism have appeared in many anthologies, journals and magazines around the US and Canada.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
at first confusing, then delightful,
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This review is from: Invisible Radios: re-mixes, statistics, jokes, etc. (Paperback)
When I first picked up the book (for its interesting cover concept) I thought it was going to be eroticly charged stuff, and some of it is. But most of all, the book goes on various experimental tangents that at first confuse, but then like a puzzle where you see the whole forming, it becomes a strange and fun world. One of the most original books of "poetry" I've ever read.
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Invisible Radios is lo-fi subversity at its finest...,
This review is from: Invisible Radios: re-mixes, statistics, jokes, etc. (Paperback)
off-camber declarations like "...Voice mail is an invisible microphone controlled by a ghost..." & more unsettling originality abounds in Kevin Sampsell's latest collection, INVISIBLE RADIOS: RE-MIXES, STATISTICS, JOKES, ETC. the "statistic" poem "My New Level of Despair" in this book is reminiscent of Sampsell's hilariously disorienting earlier work (HOW TO LOSE YOUR MIND WITH THE LIGHTS ON and LET'S START SOMETHING SPECIAL). at any rate, the writer is adept at slapping together psychosexual imagery & situational comedies so real/unreal that the reader is left in a state of dumbstruck awe that someone has actually recorded our innermost impulses & perversities of natural thought. it's a laugh. one can't help wondering while reading Sampsell's work WHAT exactly is going on & that's the art of it--the meanings are left open for the reader to decide. no static here. recommended....
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