BIG AMERICAN TRIP, Christian Peet

BIG AMERICAN TRIP

Christian Peet

Publisher: Shearsman Books
PubDate: 3/15/2009
ISBN: 9781848610156
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $15.00
Quantity Available: 18
Pages: 100
 

Poetry. Assuming the form of postcards authored by an "alien" of unknown nationality, ethnicity, and gender, addressing a variety of people and organizations (political figures, multinational corporations, people in public toilets, et al), BIG AMERICAN TRIP is a startling document of fear and loneliness in the 21st century U.S. Whether deconstructing road signs, a failed relationship, or the state of contemporary poetry, the voice behind these texts is at once familiar and strange, determined to be free, and desperate to communicate with anyone who has ever felt at odds with the Language of a Nation. Christian Peet is the author of THE NINES and the publisher of Tarpaulin Sky Press.

Reviews:
http://bigamericantrip.blogspot.com/
http://versemag.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-review-of-christian-peet.html
http://prickofthespindle.com/reviews/3.2/_small%20presses/peet/big_american_trip.htm
http://www.actionyes.org/issue9/peet/peet1.html


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