The Pigs Drink From Infinity: Poems 1995-2001 [Paperback]

Mark Spitzer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2006

Death is something that happens to someone else, quipped Duchamp. But, conditioned as we are by television news, it's more likely that for us, life is something that happens to someone else. That is, until Spitzer arrives with his new book of poems to reveal to us our own true mythologies, the mythologies we miss:The return of a problematic friend, the sex life of a tattooed woman, pulling into a gas station for a burger, in other words, what we omit, what falls through the cracks:Our neglected stories, the places where life really lives. Julian Semilian

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Review

I was lucky enough to attend a reading and pick the book up before it was relased in the major chains. And I'm glad I did. I found myself strolling down a brutally honest, twisted yet real, grungy, sparkling clean, next-door-neighbor-himping-in-the-next-window, bronze saturn road, laughing all the way. Spitzer highlights the things we forget and isn't shy about putting them in the light we all see them in but are afraid to admit. The best poem I thought, was JUNKYARD, a poem about different American junkyards. It is a clinic in rhythm without rhyme. Also, for those of you who don't like quiche, this book should fix that problem. Highly recommended. --Perrin

Behind the swashbuckling desperado aura of Spitzer's bemused muse is an incisive awareness of and pity for the human world gone insane. --Antler

About the Author

Mark Spitzer is an infamous literary translator and cult-classic novelist who catches giant primative fish that will eat you like bait.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil (June 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933132256
• ISBN-13: 978-1933132259
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,565,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Genius.... again...., March 26, 2006

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This review is from: The Pigs Drink From Infinity: Poems 1995-2001 (Paperback)

I was lucky enough to attend a reading and pick the book up before it was relased in the major chains. And I'm glad I did. I found myself strolling down a brutally honest, twisted yet real, grungy, sparkling clean, next-door-neighbor-himping-in-the-next-window, bronze saturn road, laughing all the way. Spitzer highlights the things we forget and isn't shy about putting them in the light we all see them in but are afraid to admit. The best poem I thought, was JUNKYARD, a poem about different American junkyards. It is a clinic in rhythm without rhyme. Also, for those of you who don't like quiche, this book should fix that problem. Highly recommended.