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from Very Hyper by Scott Dennis Big Freak Out It's the end of the world, and here are the rules to make us feel new. That is, the rules to make us feel: Keep your cash in a clip, big bills on the outside. Keep your gas tanked, and your knives sharpened. Knives is plural, and the big finale is lost in the dirt. We without shovels, lost in the dirt. |
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With a mouth like a knife and a heart like a racecar, Scott Dennis' Very Hyper moves through the world in slo-mo, graphing and charting the cultured self in one big freak-out after another. Baudrillard says hello, here, and ironically also the soul. The poems in Very Hyper are conflicted about being and also about being poems, eventually coming to grips with the world-in-a-swirl through the demonstration of multiple, simultaneous, and often subversive processes. "Your assignment:/Choose guts or charm," Dennis writes in his poem "Erasable You," and then continues, "Begin erasing until you/ have the best thing ever." 37p. |
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