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Fiction. "I've never read anything quite like A MOMENTARY JOKEBOOK. It is wonderfully intelligent, terribly funny, thought provoking, often wise and always compelling. Think Milan Kundera meets South Park. What unifies this wide ranging work is Jayson Iwen's fresh approach to form and language, and his ability to surprise us and turn us on our heads"--Tom Barbash, author of The Last Good Chance.
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About the Author
In 2006 Jayson Iwen returned from four years teaching at the American University of Beirut. He then worked in the medical software industry for over a year before joining the English Department at Beloit College. His book-length poem, Six Trips in Two Directions, won the Emergency Press book contest in 2005, and his experimental novella, A MOMENTARY JOKEBOOK, won the Cleveland State University novella contest in 2007.
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"I've never read anything quite like A Momentary Jokebook . It is wonderfully intelligent, terribly funny, thought provoking, often wise and always compelling. Think Milan Kundera meets South Park. What unifies this wide ranging work is Jayson Iwen's fresh approach to form and language, and his ability to surprise us and turn us on our heads." --Tom Barbash, author of The Last Good Chance
"The words of Iwen's novella have angry sex with one another, climaxing in transcendent moments of laughter and love. His themes are our most fetishistic desires -- to be both nurtured and do violence, to humiliate and be humiliated, to pervert history while singing our innocence. Such is the pathos of our uncertain age, and here is a marveously crafted tragic-comic record of it." --Christopher Grimes, author of Public Works
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- PublisherCleveland State U Poetry Center
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1880834766
- ISBN 13 9781880834763
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages70
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