Something in the way // obstruction blues
By: John Duvernoy
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Horse Less Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780982989685
Other titles: Obstruction blues
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Written in a seance of intuition and then extensively revised, SOMETHING IN THE WAY is an aboriginal blues, a gut map, where ecstatic clarity shares a bed with gall stone blindness. Proceeding by feints and jabs, deadpan misdirection undercutting stark confession, the pages share a core vulnerability, a magnetic bruise. These are loner's poems, vying to connect. Sunk deep in the mud of childhood, dragged by an erotic comb with missing teeth, what passes through unexamined, re-emerges in adulthood, wearing masks. Surreal, streetwise, and draped in black humor, the method is magpie, the code collapsed romantic. Duvernoy's piercing lyric rhythm, his art brut cologne, haunt a landscape poised between complicity and the drifter's escape. For readers hungry for a sound of authentic risk and mystery, this electric debut will quicken the pulse."--
Notes: Poems.