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This poet's formal experiments once again bring into relief the beauties and absurdities from the dead past as they live on in our present age.
List of contents
Contents
1. his armormed team
2. tarnish the coppice, punk autumn
3. song of the south
4. thanks to the 250+ participants
5. psalmish
6. scott walker sings
7. syrtos
8. the new hellenism
9. to an indie friend in havasu
10. whose voice to have called you
11. humber, severn, mersey, thames and ouse
12. an epitaph on the french prophets
13. young historian's scoring rubric
14. berceuse
15. his first time in ankara
16. he accounts for the art's current state
17. another hapless functionary
18. schottische
19. first there's his heart destroying the strega
20. passerine
21. san francisco
22. urdu made easy
23. gulag
24. apology to pasternak
25. false consciousness is people not understanding their actual role in society
26. the new world
27. kenosis
28. things unseen
29. poem for bruce
30.the new poetics
31. the work they do they do at night
32. a field in England
33. it might as well be spring
34. son oscuro
35. after lunch, some poems
36. bug's psalm
37. he continually puts autumn in his writing
38. tutor song
39. poem with line by kazimir malevich
40. mozambique
41. parable
42. sort of a north country song
43. anniversary
44. theoria
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45. the shape of russian literature
46. zoroastrianism is the least well known of the world's religions
47. a formal unfreezing
48. the new sobriety
49. pastorale
50. mazurka
51. simonides
52. his concert experience
53. year of the monkey
54. in the backlands of the province
55. he gives himself this one reprieve
About the author
Rodney Koeneke is author of the poetry collections
Body & Glass (forthcoming, Wave Books, 2018),
Etruria(Wave Books, 2014),
Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006), and
Rouge State(Pavement Saw, 2003). An early member of the Flarf collective, he was active in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene until 2006, when he moved to Portland, Oregon where he teaches in the History Department at Portland State University.
