Comp.

by Kevin Davies and Kevin Davies

Book Overview

Poetry. Deftly combining toughboy wit with a kind of hyper-awareness of language usually only found in Language poets, Kevin Davies' COMP. is a brilliant and hilarious read. Quoth the man himself--I learned the year after kindergarten that sentences are linguistic artifacts with regulations that fill themselves out, and that for the purposes of our circus-cannon ambitions the most important part of the war they enact is the full-stopping dots that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890311081
• ISBN13: 9781890311087
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Edge Books
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

PoLangPo

This is one of the best books of poetry I've read. And I've read enough to disdain wasted words on hailing the next fatty to emerge with literary braggadocio. Davies impressed me with "Pause Button". He's floored me with Comp., though. Departing from what might be considered post-avant (or PoLangPo/post-New York School), Davies work claims both an obsession with language and an ability towards an exactitude re the referential of language, making the work instantly "accesible" yet not "dumbed down" or quietist argumentative with a self (nor shelf). At once moving and aggressive, Davies provokes and bears fists, weaves around and penetrates what is truly inventive voice, showing many: "The entire panoply of minimalist histrionics"?! Davies' command and use of English et. al. rouses and douses; each time I open this book I find a new place in it that hits me.