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Invisible Radios: re-mixes, statistics, jokes, etc.

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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.

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....