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Book SynopsisPoems that break language apart from the inside. Brolaski's third collection combines Latin, pop culture, etymology, politics, and sex in linguistic experimentation. It asks the reader to let go of expectations and be open to a sonically immersive experience. The poems are as radical as they are romantic, rewriting the rules of grammar and creating a personal vernacular. Julian T. Brolaski is the author of Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012), gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), and co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press / Belladonna Books 2009). Julian lives in Oakland, and is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the country band The Western Skyline.
Table of ContentsMongrel, Some Definitions and Etymologies [WAR MESSAGE] we dont want yr tools against breeding rather like a doubting dog in the cut on loneliness I did it for something to do fire place most honeyed lovers reversed: dump hunk notes from the mummy chamber the rabbit & the crow who is not yr cousin? what’s eating hildegard? ack, buttery what do they know of suffering, who eat of pineapples yearround like w/ like wars not irreversibly like apples when will springtime come on in of mongrelitude dog on dog aggression hell and gore sometimes I feel like I’m the tool of the devil oceanic feeling some say an army of horsepeople what wuz there IZZAYE red sky at morn tho the riveulets be finite, the tokens are talking automat metropolis melancholy lake involuntarily I licked my lips if only there were a glory for that hole fried-eyed / banned poetry words how obvious blathersum despite of space for our meeting on the loam helen source of death sympathy butters no parsnips chaparral character whethersoever it were (marry to be humanlike) eat dirt, oasis, myn oracle gon aerial wolfhuntin widdershins ambivalence becometh you dont need to get fucked up to see visions on antony and cleo not the sloppy religiosity the tabloids are filled w/ mancrush and bromance the myth of the subway the uselessness of magicking death poem for r having left new york poem for shorty courtier rules for bones or pause to gaze on the moody chest of spartacus a bee's feather airroir make us all homosexuals, o muse, o privy muse fowles in tha frith imaginary and actual koalas, troly loly dis pure diss we birds the death of script as the owl augurs
