Wednesday, December 12, 2012

PARTYKNIFE by DAN MAGERS and AUTOPSY TURVY by THOMAS FINK and MAYA DIABLO MASON

LUCY BIEDERMAN Engages

PartyKnife by Dan Magers
(Birds LLC, Austin / Minneapolis / New York / Raleigh, 2012)

and

Autopsy Turvy by Thomas Fink & Maya Diablo Mason
(Meritage Press, St. Helena & San Francisco, 2010)

[Editor’s Note: For “Random Diptych”, three poet-critics accepted my invitation to review two books together, with such books chosen at random from GR’s available review copies.  “Random Diptych” presents a special challenge as, in addition to reviewing the individual book, the review also must read each book in the company of the other.  Here is the result from Lucy Biderman.]



PUMP DOWN THE VOLUME

Pump down the volume, yeah
           
Lining up the words                   you’re drunk again
                                                drunk again or stoned
                                               
alone with the seven continents

                                                the 44 presidents &

                                                your human anatomy

            Dan Magers, “All Tastes Are In Nature,” I will line up the words
            herein & make you wait for your name like a sex game,
there’s your “cross training,” & will ball up like CVS sweat-
socks the badboy things I ever have done & gift them to him
in an xmas popcorn tin, degradation for which there is no
designation, I mean no mention, enter the declension, psychedelia
by smooth smooth smooth smooth cover band 

                                                Pump

down the volume to the center of the

stage                                        the red-set Flareless page

You’re my daughter, my special problem: the only
one who grows

            Daddy & girly Autopsy Turvy
when he bends down to talk to her
            I seem to feel it I’m never going to//
            she answers enormous & undaunted
            cheat on myself I will not say I will
            not will not will not say my d—

literary construct sites, boa constrictions,

tonight we’re gonna have a good time.
 


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Lucy Biederman (http://lucybiederman.blogspot.com/) is a doctoral student in English Literature at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. She is the author of a chapbook, The Other World (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in The Literary Review, Parcel, RHINO, Ping Pong, ILK, Shampoo, and Gargoyle


1 comment:

  1. Other views of AUTOPSY TURVY are offered by

    Nicholas T. Spatafora in GR # 15 at

    http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/autopsy-turvy-by-thomas-fink-and-maya.html


    and by Jon Curley in GR #15 at

    http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/autopsy-turvy-by-thomas-fink-maya.html

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