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Did somebody say Jen Knox's poems "read like Richard Pryor with an MFA"? Yes, somebody did. (It was John Findura in Verse Magazine.) She's also been compared to comedian Sarah Silverman, artist Jeff Koons, a 10-year-old who can't keep her mouth shut, and cartoonist R. Crumb. None of these equations is quite right, however. Jennifer L. Knox's work is unmistakably her own: darkly hilarious, surprisingly empathetic, utterly original. DRUNK BY NOON is the eagerly awaited sequel to Knox's first book, A GRINGO LIKE ME, which is also available from Bloof in a new edition. Jennifer L. Knox is a three-time contributor to the Best American Poetry Series and her poems have also appeared in Great American Prose Poems and Great American Erotic Poems. For more information, see www.jenniferlknox.com.
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This second book from Knox, a young New York poet, continues the playful romp through the warped Americana she began in her debut, A Gringo Like Me. Here, Knox gives voice to wayward teens, drug-addled sages and fat dogs fantasizing about killing babies—among other unsavory characters—through dramatic monologues and quick narrative sketches. There are many rats, guns, genitals, fried foods and drugs, too, along the way, and Knox catalogues them all in a breezy voice suited to barrooms and club stages, echoing standup comedy and performance art. Even a rigorous pantoum called 59 Tenets About Meat sounds casual (I am totally freaking out). Reminiscent at times of a comic book Bukowski—Apparently, all those margaritas and cocaine / have saddled me with a profound bout of diarrhea—a pervasive, sentimental fascination with the down-and-out lurks behind Knox's layers of irony and comic distance. Elsewhere, she self-consciously toys with her own image in poems like Ideal Reader for Jennifer L. Knox. She's at her best and most entertaining in bursts of everyday surrealism—like the poem Pastoral with Internet Porn, which bristles with energy and imagination. This is poetry few would be intimidated by, though it could entertain many. (Mar.)
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- PublisherBloof Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0615163556
- ISBN 13 9780615163550
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages80
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