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On Saturday, April 25th at 7pm, come celebrate Monkey Puzzle Press' release of "Fotographs of Bones," a new book of poetry by Adam Perry. The release-party will include readings from "Fotographs of Bones" by Adam Perry, Irene Joyce, Tiph Parrish, Aimee Herman, Suki Bauer, Steve Kisicki, Rebecca Diaz and others, as well as musical performances by Fabio Fina, Adam Perry and Irene Joyce. Come have fun and get a copy of the book before it's in stores and on Amazon.com
"'Change as a constant state' is given new dimension in these powerfully exciting works where spiritual and physical transmogrifications explode perception. Love is the undertow, verity its wave."
--MaureenOwen, author of Erosions Pull and American Rush; former director of the Poetry Project at St Mark's-in-the-Bowery, NYC
“'Fotographs of Bones' understands ‘the common gender is obsolete.’ It is an explosion of language, rotating ‘tail-spinning scriptures’ with poetic space. Between the pages of cut-ups and exquisite corpses, Adam Perry reveals a vulnerability in this collision of experiment and exposed heart.”
-- Michelle Naka Pierce, author of Beloved Integer and co-author of TRI/VIA
“Adam Perry, musician as well as poet, doesn’t exactly compose lyrics but what the notes of the music would say if they could speak. He has taken a seat at our ceremonies, ‘an empty chair in Count Basie's Orchestra.’”
-- Charles Potts, author of Valga Krusa and Kiot; founder of The Temple Bookstore & Temple School of Poetry
“Have you ever driven ‘naked’ down Highway 1, listening ‘to beautiful
techno?’ Do you ‘respond to narration’ as to the ‘gradual burning of
nerves?’ These poems gesture to the life in which a body is allowed to
be vulnerable, to be its inside parts as much as its public flows. I
read them while drinking coffee in a back garden filled with the first
small flowers of spring, and I suggest you read them in the snow. This
is a book that belongs in the world.”
-- Bhanu Kapil, author of Incubation: A Space for Monsters and The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers
"In an age when poetry seems nearly exhausted and Ezra Pound’s 'news that stays news' is past its sell-by date, Adam Perry has accomplished something marvelous. The language in these pages seems almost self-generated, like some prolific mutation, nearly radioactive in its urgency, as if the poet found one of Jack Spicer's Martian radios smashed in a ditch and rewired it himself using a sputtering soldering gun and no manual at hand. There's no room here for the reader to hide; the effect is of being in an airplane when the windows blow out and the icy vacuum strips you naked on the way down. But when you finally hit
ground, the poet is there too, extending his hand, embracing you in tears."
-- Steve Silberman, Wired Magazine
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Saxy's Cafe
Street: 2018 10th St. (between Pearl and Spruce)
City/Town: Boulder, CO
Website: MonkeyPuzzleOnline.com
"'Change as a constant state' is given new dimension in these powerfully exciting works where spiritual and physical transmogrifications explode perception. Love is the undertow, verity its wave."
--MaureenOwen, author of Erosions Pull and American Rush; former director of the Poetry Project at St Mark's-in-the-Bowery, NYC
“'Fotographs of Bones' understands ‘the common gender is obsolete.’ It is an explosion of language, rotating ‘tail-spinning scriptures’ with poetic space. Between the pages of cut-ups and exquisite corpses, Adam Perry reveals a vulnerability in this collision of experiment and exposed heart.”
-- Michelle Naka Pierce, author of Beloved Integer and co-author of TRI/VIA
“Adam Perry, musician as well as poet, doesn’t exactly compose lyrics but what the notes of the music would say if they could speak. He has taken a seat at our ceremonies, ‘an empty chair in Count Basie's Orchestra.’”
-- Charles Potts, author of Valga Krusa and Kiot; founder of The Temple Bookstore & Temple School of Poetry
“Have you ever driven ‘naked’ down Highway 1, listening ‘to beautiful
techno?’ Do you ‘respond to narration’ as to the ‘gradual burning of
nerves?’ These poems gesture to the life in which a body is allowed to
be vulnerable, to be its inside parts as much as its public flows. I
read them while drinking coffee in a back garden filled with the first
small flowers of spring, and I suggest you read them in the snow. This
is a book that belongs in the world.”
-- Bhanu Kapil, author of Incubation: A Space for Monsters and The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers
"In an age when poetry seems nearly exhausted and Ezra Pound’s 'news that stays news' is past its sell-by date, Adam Perry has accomplished something marvelous. The language in these pages seems almost self-generated, like some prolific mutation, nearly radioactive in its urgency, as if the poet found one of Jack Spicer's Martian radios smashed in a ditch and rewired it himself using a sputtering soldering gun and no manual at hand. There's no room here for the reader to hide; the effect is of being in an airplane when the windows blow out and the icy vacuum strips you naked on the way down. But when you finally hit
ground, the poet is there too, extending his hand, embracing you in tears."
-- Steve Silberman, Wired Magazine
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Saxy's Cafe
Street: 2018 10th St. (between Pearl and Spruce)
City/Town: Boulder, CO
Website: MonkeyPuzzleOnline.com