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\u003cdiv\u003e\"This experimental work is not for the faint of heart, but it is laced with meditations that will appeal to readers concerned with poetry\u0026#8217;s role in the world.\"\u0026mdash;\u003cI\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"I am fascinated by their attention to inequality, to questions of violence and community: something borne out by the collaboration itself.\"\u0026mdash;Bhana Kapil's Best Books of 2013 on The Volta\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"\u003cI\u003eAn Army of Lovers\u003c/I\u003e explores the liminal spaces where cities and individuals come together and stand apart with strange, brainy grace.\"\u0026mdash;Michelle Tea, author of \u003cI\u003eMermaid in Chelsea Creek\u003c/I\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"By means of a series of stylistically and tonally various prose segments (by turns reflexive and dialogic, ironic and depressive, unhinged and hallucinatory, wetly emotional and dryly wry, including a detournement of a Raymond Carver story), the book centers, emotionally, on the ebb and flow of what it calls 'struggle-force.' Signature drone strikes, torture, ecological collapse, environmental illness and chronic fatigue syndrome: it's all connected.\"\u0026mdash;Miranda Mellis, \u003cI\u003eRain Taxi\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"The book offers many ways of approaching the age-old questions \u003cI\u003eWhat makes something art\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003eWhat makes someone a decent citizen\u003c/I\u003e, as well as (if not primarily) exploring the ways in which the answers to these questions might intersect. More impressively, it does so without being didactic and yet without being obscure, as so many efforts at high-concept art tend to be.\"\u0026mdash;Evan Karp, \u003cI\u003eSF Weekly\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"Fantastical, lyrical, whimsical and wildly experimental, \u003cI\u003eAn Army of Lovers\u003c/I\u003e is as serious as it is absurd.\"\u0026mdash;Christopher Higgs, HTMLGIANT\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\"This picaresque story about the 'particular lostness' of poetry, the ways poems always win and the lives of self-described 'mediocre' poets is actually pretty hilarious! It\u0026#8217;s also smart, incisive and politically astute. Now, to the barricades!\"\u0026mdash;Rebecca Brown, author of \u003cI\u003eAmerican Romances: Essays\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cI\u003eAn Army of Lovers\u003c/I\u003e begins with the story of two poets, Demented Panda and Koki, united in their desire to write politically engaged poetry at a time when poetry seems to have lost its ability to effect social change. Their first project is more than a failure, resulting in a spell that unleashes a torrent of raw sewage and surrealistic embodiments of consumerist excess and black site torture techniques. Subsequent chapters feature an experimental composer (Koki?) and a performance artist (Panda?) whose bodies are literally invaded with the ills of capitalism, manifested through leaking blisters and other maladies, as well as a radical remix of a Raymond Carver story, questioning \u0026#147;What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry.\u0026#8221; The novel concludes with Panda and Koki returning to the site of their failed collaboration to conjure up a more utopian vision of \u0026#147;an army of lovers.\u0026#8221; Fantastical, lyrical, whimsical and wildly experimental, \u003cI\u003eAn Army of Lovers\u003c/I\u003e is as serious as it is absurd.\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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