Joy Is So Exhausting by Susan Holbrook
By Susan Holbrook
Joyfully melding realizing humour and torqued-up wordplay, Holbrook’s moment assortment is a comic book fusion of the experimental and the experiential, the procedural and the lyric. Punch traces turn into sucker punches, line breaks slip into breakdowns, the intense performs comical and the comical turns lethal critical. Holbrook’s poems don’t use humour up to they deconstruct the comedian impulse, exposing its roots within the political, the mental and the emotional lifetime of the brain. lots of those poems import shapes and resource texts from somewhere else domestic inspection studies, tampon directions, poems by way of Lorca in a sequence of translations, transpositions and transgressions that invite a extra intimate and demanding rapport with the written observe. this isn't purely a e-book, it's a chocolate-covered artificially clever virus with an impish feel of humour that would proceed to copy on your brain lengthy after preliminary exposure.
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