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Boombox

Boombox

Loydell, Rupert M.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1848610580
ISBN13: 9781848610583
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Sep 15 2009
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Boombox is Rupert M. Loydell's third collection with Shearsman, and further demonstrates the author's range of styles and startling application of collage and montage techniques to poetry.

Somewhere among the manifestos of the century just past, there is a line which reads there is nothing more marvelous than a plate on a table, and on that plate a loaf of bread. Earth air fire and water, made and remade and made again, by and not by human hands. Is it true? Will '[t]his town / ... simply become somewhere [we] used to live'? Don't believe that simply for a moment. The 'heartbeat is a bell / that chimes on the hour.' We 'shiver in the imaginary wind.' Imaginary? 'In Guinness terms it's all fluid dynamics / and computer hum, the chaotic crackle ... The CD skips in the jukebox to make / the best dance loop [we] ever heard.' His 'I' is a 'we', as well as an 'I', if you hadn't noticed. It's an interesting place, Loydell's marvelous quotidian. Somewhere worth living while we can. You can eat these poems. You don't even have to put butter on them. -John Bloomberg-Rissman

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