In the misanthropic spirit of Genet, these poems enact a "private genocide" toward American consumerism and mass culture, which speeds out of control while poets and prophets, once provacateurs, complacently sing jingles. Goransson is angry, vulgar, and sometimes crude as he parodies and prods contemporary American poetry's insularity and factionalism-- still hung up on Modernism. Beauty becomes a "riddle doused in gasoline" in this epic sequence, often interrupted by Godard-like flashes of mottos and pithy jokes, mixes surrealist impulses with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E-esqe prosody. Notions of genre are demolished and language itself seems relegated to a wildly impossible epistemological space that is something akin to "whispering in hammers" or "speaking in silhouettes." The poet satirizes, prods, pastiches, and "grotesquerizes" until every assumption we have, cultural or personal, crumbles in his re-invented idiom.
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Johannes Goransson was born in Sweden and now lives in South Bend, Indiana. He is co-editor for Action Books and the online journal *Action, Yes.* He is the translator of Henry Parland's Idealrealisationand author of Pilot, published by Fairy Tale Review Books.
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This is the greatest book of poetry ever written. Be warned: its lines remove eye macula and sizzle the hair.
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It's been a couple of years since I first read this book, but I can still feel the excitement of reading it. Johannes offers here a very unique voice, going beyond criticism and offering a natural, fluid way of viewing the nation and big media. Its style is varied, well-scoped, and it's just plain amazingly written. PLEASE read this book.
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