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essays in prose/poem form
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If you want politics with your poetry, this is the book for you--politics not as subject but as a process, highlighting "language mechanism" rather than content. Sherry ( Popular Fiction ) is a member in good standing of the Language Poets, who contend that language itself is complicitous in the schemings of capitalist culture. The conspiracy-mongering in these short prose poems has its hysterical moments ("The idea of a native meter of American speech is an effort to co-opt and freeze the way people speak"), and the language itself, for all the author's brash intentions to save it from "the ruling classes," seems as if a neutron bomb has visited--no signs of life, only structures. There is a loose narrative here--Graceland, a "displaced underwriter of short-term paper," and Carpaccio, a "hazardous-waste disposer," make random appearances in a post-nuclear holocaust landscape--yet one senses there is little but contempt for the reader in these half-hearted concessions to storytelling. Because this is perhaps the most intricate statement yet from the theoretical far left in American poetry, its inability to mount a persuasive argument may well signal that movement's long-rumored death.
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