Monster Fashion (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly
Kicking off "After Watching a Local High School Stage Production of George Romero's `Night of the Living Dead,' " moving on "In Honor of the World's First Baby Abandonment Station" and through to "Graduate Student Gets Drunk After Reading Critical Terms for Literary Study," readers may wonder where Jarret Keene can go from his titles. The answer is deep into "Long luxuriant lambswool hides Hairy hides." Celebrating comic-horror culture and beyond in 50-odd page-length narratives and lyrics, Monster Fashion commemorates college dumpster diving, "Super-Adaptoids," "a wealth of pornography" and plenty of beer and bad movies. A former editor of Sundog: The Southeast Review, Keene teaches composition at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and serves up "Spoofs that prove the criminality of Letterman's lack of originality."
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Book Description
Whether he is writing about Godzilla, Alfred E. Neuman, Ava Gardner, concealed weapons, or X-ray specs, Jarret Keene is always building a bigger world, tearing it down, and then putting it back together, each time creating a new place. As American a poet as Patti Smith or Walt Whitman, Keene is something else as well: legitimate pop-culture royalty whose award-winning poetry has been published in more than 50 literary journals and magazines. “Monster Fashion is apt to change your idea of beauty.” — William Trowbridge, author of Flickers