Lewis Carrol meets Allen Ginsberg.... This is poetry about an
angel-poet, wings paper-clipped, seeking spiritual food in the
modern office cubicle. He pecks away at office-machinery (+ la
Dilbert) and dreams among his fellow stick men and women of being a
Wordsworthian visionary o or at least an iaction figureeni. Jason
Camlot is a scholar of Victorian nonsense and humorous verse and
these poems are a ehowli amidst the islithy borogrovesi sort of
affair, a wild, brilliantly refitted variety theater act. Other
pieces, equally wan, hilarious, noir, plumb nineteen thirties
Hollywood (and present day movieland) hijinks, Hemingwayis
war-with-booze style, and the dark obsessions of Important Men. The
writer and his writing is epasti conscious, but completely versed
in contemporary Canadian and American poetry. This is an immensely
funny, witty, up-to-date collection o zany, zippy, and zine-y
Critical Comment iThe book is deceptively easy to read and packed
with pop-cultural references, while skillfully skipping between an
array of styles and personae.io McGill Tribune, Jan. 2006iJason
Camlot packs a lot into the 100-plus pages of Attention All
Typewriters. His wit and erudition are everywhere apparent.io
Montreal Review of Books, Spring/Summer 2006 iPlaying with the form
and, throughout this collection, with ideas about the real work of
the poet, Camlot is finding and admitting and contemplating and
celebrating his office upon earth.io Broken Pencil, #30 iJason
Camlotis new book is an enigmatic and funny tour de force. Riding
the board of high culture, it surfs the waves of pop that break
relentlessly over our lives and emerges tangled in seaweed and
garbage, soaked, but still standing.io david antin iJason Camlot
finds poetry in the most unlikely places: in hilarious stoned
college dorm memories, the boredom of emeaninglessi office jobs, a
rhymed litany of frequented drinking haunts, or a confessional
meditation on warmongering America. I applaud these poems for their
slightly jaded integrity, for their formal astuteness and wit, for
their engagement with a not-so-desirable reality. Camlot valiantly
fights the good fight: against conformity and numbness, against
that which excludes poetry from daily life.i o David Trinidad
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