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it It�s conceived as a family attraction:
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good books gone bad Secret Origins: an avant garde sampler is now in it's second edition! Find out why Jordan Davis shrugged his shoulders about this text. Contains the entire Quo Vadis series and A Dinner for Charles Bernstein. "I loved it!" says Edna Chaplette, Bernstein's secretary; and you will too. Product Information: Second Edition · Paperback: 37 pages
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Geoffrey Gatza's epic poem,
Avatar(TM) the life and death of DC's Superman, set in 70 cantos,
relating to the years of Superman's life and death in print, 1938
through 1993, details the 20th century american poetic style and
motive. This is a post-9/11 reading of america and it's un-erring
depiction of what is right and just. Geoffrey Gatza is a young poet of the
era of the so-called post-avant. Future historians of poetry will
no doubt note how the post-avant is primarily characterized by the
prolific number of literary Tupperware© parties its members
hold in various locales around the country. At these parties, as
is well known, transparent Tupperware© containers of various
sizes and shapes are excitedly passed around, their slightly varied
forms and sizes avidly appraised, their snap-on covers lovingly
fondled, the names of the different owners of said containers uttered
with breathless, “you-are-one-of-us” approbation. Historians
will no doubt note, as well, that Geoffrey Gatza was never invited
to these parties, and that his lack of popularity was, in the main,
his own doing. For when he wasn’t in the kitchen cooking (he
is a chef by trade and a master one), he chose to spend his time
alone someplace, designing, crafting, and forging a kind of strange
(for lack of better description) rocket backpack, which in a field
of poppies he one day strapped himself into and fired up with a
click of his Zippo. Historians will note what a few on the ground
amazingly observed (though not, of course, those “insiders”
at the parties, blocked as they were by the soundproofed walls and
roofs around them): A flaming dark form shooting up at tremendous
speed, lifting higher and higher, getting smaller and smaller, and
then, of a sudden, at a tremendous height, exploding in a giant,
blinding flash, sending thousands of pieces of contrailed debris
slowly spinning down out of the sky around a central, slowly falling
ball of light… Oh, but no, don’t be sad. For the historians
will not mourn his fate. They will observe, rather, and quite matter-of-factly,
that in the era under discussion, nearly all poets, whether of the
School of Quietude or the post-avant, chose a safe, flat, and authorized
path, while a tiny few, like Geoffrey Gatza, elected to gloriously
immolate themselves far above the Gravity of Literature, and way
beyond the slow, demeaning death of those who are satisfied, in
their fleeting existences, to remain there. What's the matter? Have you nothing to
say about America? Do you not dare be grandiose? This work is grandiose
if nothing else. Here, Gatza masterfully concocts an intelligent
and lucid epic poem as his contribution to the American avant garde
in a time when epics tend to be passé. Avatar(TM) marries
the gusto of a comic book with a collection of fascinating esoterica
culled from 100 years of western history. Gatza's poetry is unassuming
and engaged; this work marks him out as a poet to keep an eye on.
Product Information: · Paperback: 237 pages
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