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Book SynopsisThis experimental work is not for the faint of heart, but it is laced with meditations that will appeal to readers concerned with poetry’s role in the world.—Publishers Weekly
I am fascinated by their attention to inequality, to questions of violence and community: something borne out by the collaboration itself.—Bhana Kapil''s Best Books of 2013 on The Volta
An Army of Lovers explores the liminal spaces where cities and individuals come together and stand apart with strange, brainy grace.—Michelle Tea, author of Mermaid in Chelsea Creek
By means of a series of stylistically and tonally various prose segments (by turns reflexive and dialogic, ironic and depressive, unhinged and hallucinatory, wetly emotional and dryly wry, including a detournement of a Raymond Carver story), the book centers, emotionally, on the ebb and flow of what it calls ''struggle-force.'' Signature drone strikes, torture, ecological collapse,
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"These are stories told with one foot in the Summer of Love and the other in the sewer."--Adam Park, Eleven Eleven Journal
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Part One
A PICTURESQUE STORY ABOUT
THE BORDER BETWEEN TWO CITIES
Part Two
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT POETRY
Part Three
THE SIDE EFFECT
Part Four
THE SIDE EFFECT
Part Five
AN ARMY OF LOVERS
