Description
Poetry. "The customer is always right and let the latest installment of Fitterman's polyphonic, sprawling METROPOLIS be the proof of the pudding. We've come full circle. No longer the passive, voiceless victims of draconian capitalist forces, consumer culture allows us to exercise the subjectivity we've been granted via interpolation (see Barbara Kruger's I shop therefore I am) by talking back to the machine. Disaffected consumers of the world, unite!™ Why vote with our feet when we can churn out chatter in the comfort of our homes? Anybody listening? Fitterman certainly is. Consume this book; satisfaction guaranteed."—Mónica de la Torre
Author Bio
Robert Fitterman is the author of 15 books of poetry including ROB'S WORD SHOP (Ugly Duckling Press, 2019), THIS WINDOW MAKES ME FEEL (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), I LOVE YOU FOREVER, NO MATTER (Counterpath, 2016), NEVERMIND (Wonder Books, 2016), NO WAIT, YEP. DEFINITELY STILL HATE MYSELF (Ugly Duckling Press, 2014), HOLOCAUST MUSEUM (Counterpath, 2013, and Veer [London] 2012), NOW WE ARE FRIENDS (Truck Books, 2010), ROB THE PLAGIARIST (Roof Books, 2009), WAR, THE MUSICAL (Subpress, 2006), and METROPOLIS—a long poem in 4 separate volumes. He has collaborated with several visual artists, including: Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Fia Backström, Tim Davis and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the international artists and writers collective, Collective Task. He teaches writing and poetry at New York University and at the Bard College, Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA