Nice Hat. Thanks. is an innovative book based on the recorded improvised poetic collaborations between two award-winning poets, Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. Nice Hat. Thanks. is a collection of transcriptions of these collaborations, with poems ranging from a few words to several pages.
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The authors allow their choppy lines and abrupt shifts of meaning to govern the book's aesthetic... the result is delightful. -- Monique van den Berg, www.bookslut.com
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Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His previous books include Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer. He lives in Seattle and New York. Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in Oklahoma. He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University College Dublin, and the University of Michigan, where he won the Avery Hopwood Award for poetry. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was a winner of the National Poetry Series and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1995. Mary Oliver called his work "beautiful and disquieting," and Harvard Review notes that his poems are "everywhere marked by freshness and originality." He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered - The Book Show, and is a poetry editor of Fence.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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[...] creates downtime,
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This review is from: Nice Hat. Thanks. (Paperback)
These guys are lifting the face of American poetry with their word by word improvised collaborations ... funny, direct, mysterious, imaginative, unpredictable yet somehow always just right, these poems (from two-liners all the way up to two-pagers) will help you remember why poetry is necessary, not to mention fun. Plus to see them write new collaborations live (they're in the middle of a cross-country tour right now) is to see the pleasure of writing poetry -- letting language loose and watching it out of the corner of your ear until it finds you -- revealed ... anyone can do it, and everyone will. Pure generous poetry for everyone.
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these guys rock,
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This review is from: Nice Hat. Thanks. (Paperback)
clever, observant, right on targetthe only thing better than reading their stuff is seeing them come up with it live
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Nice book. Thanks.,
This review is from: Nice Hat. Thanks. (Paperback)
It seems the readers are staunchly divided; you'll either like this book or hate it. If you read it as a bout of light reading and don't dig too deeply for meaning or what have you, you will enjoy it for the simple play of language, for all of the words bumping each other pleasantly. If you're looking for wit and meaning, I'd stick with the pithier two- or three-lined poems. The longer ones strike me as a sort of absurdist mad-lib, which was a plus in my book, but may not be in yours. Borrow a copy first, to test it out.
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