Pain - Softcover

Reiner, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188071325X ISBN 13: 9781880713259

Publisher: Avec Books, 2001

Poetry. In PAIN, writer, editor and filmmaker Christopher Reiner offers a contemporary version of Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen, retaining all the subtlety, perverse charm, and withering social commentary of the original -- and even managing to sneak in the angels and devils that were his forerunner's specialty. Christopher Reiner's stories or prose poems -- I'm not sure how to classify them -- are subtle and psychologically astute, fascinating. They draw you in with their apparent simplicity, but it is into a conundrum, a riddle always just beyond your understanding. They leave you wanting more -- not more from them but more like them -- Rae Armantrout.

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About the Author:

Christopher Reiner lives in Los Angeles. His previous full-length book, Ogling Anchor, was published by Avec Books in 1998. He was the editor of WITZ: A Journal of Contemporary Poetics from 1991-1999. A member of the Drift Group of experimental filmmakers, his recent video works include Stage Sleep, The Wedding Song, and The Man Who Ate a Car.

Review:

"...Reading Pain is like trying not to laugh in a movie theatre where everyone else is weeping." -- Stephen-Paul Martin

"...a flitting hybrid, a cross between Andre Breton and Garrison Keillor -- Diane Ward

"...they [the poems] leave you wanting more, not more FROM them, but more LIKE them." -- Rae Armantrout

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