Poetry. Flarf. Rodney Koeneke was born in Omaha in 1968 and grew up in Tucson and Los Angeles, and has lived in or about San Francisco since 1986. His book of history, Empires of the Mind, which tells the story of the British literary critic I.A. Richards, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. ROUGE STATE is his first full-length poetry collection. "In ROUGE STATE, Rodney Koeneke puts the blush back on the demotic. His idiomatic montage is a careening screed dictated from a state of alert, all puns intended to turn the hose back on a culture run literally amuck, and whose marquee reads: Raw, Red, Rouge, Incarnadine. Welcome to these states!"-- Michael Gizzi.
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"Rodney Koeneke puts the blush back on the demotic....welcome to these states!" -- Michael Gizzi
"These elegant verses have teeth, and be warned: behind each incisor lurks a Dunciad" -- K. Silem Mohamad
"These elegant verses have teeth, and be warned: behind each incisor lurks a Dunciad" -- K. Silem Mohamad
About the Author
Author of Rules for Drinking Forties (Cy Press, 2009), MUSEE MECHANIQUE (BlazeVOX, 2006), and ROUGE STATE (Pavement Saw, 2003), Rodney Koeneke once wrote an expensive book about I.A. Richards and China. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with bass legend Lesley Poirier.
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This is a fun, rollicking read ... and deceptively so as the fun doesn't prevent pleasing bouts of lyric intensity. Really enjoyable.
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"I have seen Grandma's secretions
I have dressed in Auntie's pantyhose. I have discussed gender issues with the sager of the amoebae In backstreets watched by perfumed gendarmes." This book grabbed me with these lines and wouldn't let go. Showily vulgar, clunky in spots and almost always almost out of control, at least it never bored me. Is this what 9/11 did to poetry? Off to put ointment on the claw marks ...
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