Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House

by Kent Johnson

Poetry. "Offense given; offense taken. Betrayals remembered and the betrayers unforgiven. Kent Johnson's mordant poems burn away the scrimshaw, the lace-making, the dreck that passes for poetry today, exposing the hypocrisy of our official poetry culture where a cadre of pampered bourgeoisie imagine themselves enlightened revolutionaries, and the poetics of the avant-garde has congealed into a set of implicit rules more formulaic than the traditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848616996
• ISBN13: 9781848616998
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"