The Book of Treasures | Poems

Dustin Junkert (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1953835015 / ISBN 13: 9781953835017

Published by The Visible Spectrum, 2022

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The Book of Treasures | Poems | Dustin Junkert (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2022 | The Visible Spectrum | EAN 9781953835017 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of Treasures | Poems
• Publisher: The Visible Spectrum
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1953835015
• ISBN 13: 9781953835017
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Illustrator: Nichols, David
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 203W x 133H x 6D millimeters 203 millimeters width by 133 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 127 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In their collaborative poetry, Dustin Junkert and Shane Moritz drag the compositional practice of Exquisite Corpse kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

The two poets finish each other’s sentences with often preposterous élan. Their subjects are projectiles of varying gravity launched at a Ouija board planchette. The scenarios they unfold describe a universe of pop-culture misunderstandings.

Somewhere at the intersection of David Berman, Anne Sexton, Robert Pinsky, and Stephen Malkmus lies the lyrebird glory of these poems, their impact amplified by David Nichols’s original drawings, whose air of tender perplexity provides a perfect emotional accompaniment.

“In The Book of Treasures, curators Dustin Junkert and Shane Moritz expertly constitute a kickass hyper-contemporary below-the-bug-line Cabinet of Wonders.—Michael Martone

“These paratactic poems deliver the shifting dimensions of life, but also the quick life of impulse They are acrobatically funny and urbane; they’re also slyly imbued with pathos. They revel, actively, in the music of the sentence, especially, and in the weird hum of the contemporary western world. —Laura Newbern

About the Author

Dustin Junkert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works in marketing.
Shane Moritz was born in Portland, spent his formative years in Australia, and now lives in Baltimore, where he teaches writing at the University of Maryland–Baltimore County.
David Nichols is a writer and artist who teaches urban history at the University of Melbourne; his most recent book is Persiflage, a graphic novel.