Geoffrey Jacques is a subtle, sophisticated poet who has read
widely and has taken his cue from some of the most important
vanguard poets of the past century and a half-Whitman, Breton,
Cesaire, Stein, Olson, Baraka, and others. He has digested and
assimilated the lessons to be learned from their work while finding
a way that is very much his own. The result is a distinctive
contemporary voice whose angular mode of address and unerring touch
edify as much as they impress. This book presents both in full
flower. Techniques of detour and indirection productively encounter
an aesthetic of sampling, quotation, and juxtaposition, a
language-foregrounding tack that draws a range of domains and
discourses into its mix. Song titles, cliches, catch phrases,
bureaucratic boilerplate, advertising jargon, office chat, song
lyrics, legalese, and other components of the linguistic atmosphere
we live in find their way into the work, suggesting an
overmediated, gone-before-it-gets-here present. Just for a Thrill
is a substantial gathering of Jacques' work of recent years-a
welcome breakthrough book by a poet whose work has appeared mainly
in little magazines and limited chapbook editions over the past
dozen or so years, a poet whose work deserves greater attention.
We're fortunate to have so galvanic a collection of Jacques' poetry
in an edition that promises to reach a wider audience. -From the
foreword by Nathaniel Mackey
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