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Winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Indecency is
boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems,
Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity
and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white
supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal,
tender, daring, and insightful--the author unpacks his intimacies,
weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation,
and the prison industrial complex and unmask all the failures of
the structures into which society sorts us.
The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots.
The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author
of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Award-winning Indecency
comes a gory new mutation in the shape of nonfiction and criticism.
In 2019, Justin Phillip Reed's romantic maiden voyage through the
waters of American poetry and its communities ran aground in the
barrens of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when he found himself with two
years of writing time on the horizon and no social context to keep
him afloat. In anxiety and estrangement soon deepened by global
pandemic, popular fascism, virtual being, intestinal distress, and
the obscenity of his own privilege as a university pet, he
retreated to the comforts of horror films with no intent but
diversion. What happened instead was this reckless, unprecious,
in-process reckoning. Backdropped by sprawling cemeteries,
soundtracked by too much Type O Negative, and totally hung up on
cameras, With Bloom Upon Them and Also with Blood is a chase and a
trip where lyric essays, ekphrastic poetry, and lectures grapple
with alienation, professional disillusionment, perversion, and
internal contradiction under racial capitalism through playful and
critical encounters with horror cinema and cultural iconography.
Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and
examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact,
National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as
an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the
exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed
finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those
assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a
retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit
the revolting.
Idiots 'R Us" has a wide array of annoying habits that every person
has experienced at least once in their life either from someone
else or maybe they will see that habit in their actions. Idiots 'R
Us dishes out an compendium of the often inexplicable lunacy of
human behavior. Everything that 's ever irked us about other people
seems to be included here: rude drivers, insensitive store clerks,
uncaring spouses, even the lout who borrows your car for a "quick
errand" and returns it with the once-full gas tank empty, singing
along with the radio at the top of their lungs-even though they
don't know the words, and being the victim of someone who vows
"I'll only be a minute " while running into the store for a gallon
of milk, then makes us wait half an hour or more before returning
to the car with countless bags of groceries We all have those
annoying people in our lives and at times they really drive us
crazy with their habits, which they have no problem with annoying
other people. This book was written for you to finally laugh at
some of the annoying habit, instead of having your favorite person
drive you crazy with their annoying habit If you need a good laugh,
or feel one of your friends needs to read about their crazy habit,
get your copy of "Idiots 'R Us" today
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