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Urgent Bards: An Urbantgarde Poetry Anthology
Urgent Bards An Urbantgarde Poetry Anthology Author:Michael Whalen, Billy Cancel, Ed Go, melissa christine goodrum, Susan Lewis Billy Cancel, Ed Go, melissa christine goodrum and Susan Lewis are four of my favorite contemporary poets, both in their written work and also as literary performers, and they?ve contributed some incredible poems to this anthology. Over and over again while reading these poems I get the same sort of electric jolt, the same feeling of surprise... more » and discovery. From the dense language play of Billy Cancel?s work to the fractured blues/jazz-steeped lyricism of melissa goodrum?s to Ed Go?s tweaked narratives and the constantly shifting lines of Susan Lewis? prose poems, this is work that is driven by a sense of linguistic play and experimentation, a desire to upend expectations of how language typically is used in surprising, often unsettling, ways. Michael Whalen. Spring 2016 Brooklyn, New York.« less