num_pages: 210
description: To say [Damm] has created a fusion of poetry art storytelling and pulp comics doesnt seem to do the work justice principally because its a great deal more sophisticated and delightfully bizarre than that. Theres really no way to describe the experience of reading this book as it juxtaposes and repurposes textbook diagrams prose poetry and comics panel sequences while opining on the imagined comings and goings of literary giants failed mid-20th-century filmmakers and the history of the blues. Damms ideal reader is an open-minded culture junkie and fan of poetry high art and comics someone with a penchant for everything from Dada to Derrida. -Publishers Weekly starred review
language: English
title: The Science of Things Familiar
publisher: The Operating System