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Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death
FortyNine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death Author:Sandy McIntosh, Sandy McIntosh Of his previous collection, the American Book Review wrote: McIntosh's imagination is so vivid that the primary response to [his poetry] is delight. In this new collection McIntosh ventures further into the realms of imaginative invention, returning with diverse arrangements of weird musical instruments and catalogs of improbable events. In a ... more »seemingly simple postmodern gesture, McIntosh makes what in most people' s hands are gimmicks into writing that is truly heartfelt, genuine and intriguingly strange. A number of writers and poets might come to mind when reading Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death as well as McIntosh's earlier work--Borges, Auster, Collins--but no one else has so amusingly plumbed our unconscious and the melding of dream and reality as has McIntosh; his forays into experience are painful at times, hilariously bizarre, always poignant as well as provocative, and unique in their formal qualities. His is a Möbius strip world in which we become aware of our primal fears and wishes through the oddnesses of an everyday consciousness tinged with ironic goofiness.« less