Of Love and Capital | Christopher Rizzo
Poetry. Winner of the Bob Kaufman Book Prize selected by poet Bernadette Mayer. "I want to write a Christopher Rizzo poem. He reminds me of Clark Coolidge. So here it is: 'demeter disney's demerol drinks in / her daughter's forgetting that she / lives in the show me state, full of gentian prairies. Or this: I once knew a guy named Gerard Rizza / Whose poetry I also loved; there's also RZA / Of the Wu-Tang Clan.' (P.S. You have permission to sign my name as William James). Always striving!"—Bernadette Mayer "The unnerving nerves of this first-rate book are a deep-sampling via elegant breaks & stabs of our new & nervy 'microwavable century,' a mix with a BPM rate has John Wieners & Frank O'Hara dance all night (yet never getting to the slow) as they do, double-scratched as they are with all our other fathers & mothers into this double, triple, multi-layered HVP (High Velocity Poetry): It will tup you to ramiform boo as its juju goes loco with mojo. Read this book standing up and moving about, & just try not to wake up on fire. Who said that? You, our century, did. Love it!"—Pierre Joris
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