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Poetry. "TOO MUCH JOHNSON is its own one-book genre: a sub Shakespeare/ sub Dostoevski speedfest peppered with pop nihilist one-liners that purport to be the inside scoop on the human condition. It's Shakespeare ravaged by airplane glue; a geek Dostoevski bebopping the bad bugaloo"--James Ellroy, from the Introduction. Proceeding on E.M. Cioran's belief that "all inspiration proceeds from a faculty of exaggeration," Michael Gizzi's new book pulls taut--nearly to the point of bursting--the sagging borders of lyric poetry: "Suddenly there was one/ lying on his bum Paris in one/ hand crustaceans in the other/ and glow worms on the swan/ in question but not a typo but the air/ of a mandarin with three/ pigtails whose knock knacks/ perform acts no practical object/ would dream of..." ("A Planetary Drip"). Michael Gizzi is the author, most recently, of INTERFERON (The Figures) and NO BOTH (Hard Press/ The Figures). He lives and works in Lenox, Massachusetts. Saddlestapled chapbook.
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- PublisherFigures
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0935724966
- ISBN 13 9780935724967
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages31
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. WITH COVER DETAIL AND FRONTISPIECE PHOTO BE WEEGEE. 31pp, [1], staple bound, with Author's Signature on the title page. POETRY. BOOK SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Seller Inventory # 006311
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TOO MUCH JOHNSON
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Book Description First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; tall 8vo.; 31 pp. Poetry chapbook, inscribed "with love" and signed by the author. Staples tarnished else very good. Laid in a card to the recipient of the book of about 35 words mentioning a trip to Naropa and signed "Mike". Seller Inventory # 65866
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