The Available World
Poems
Will be published approx. on 12. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-1-932511-83-3 (ISBN)
Description
"[Ander Monson's] poems celebrate defiant excess. In this land of scarcity, right-living involves using up what you have, where you have it; otherwise someone might wreck, steal, or use it and you might not get any. A carpe diem for obscure, doomed youth."-Stephen Burt
Inspired by the cult Japanese video game Katamari Damacy, these poems increase in size and momentum, rolling more and more into their orbits as they go. Formally inventive and fun, The Available World examines the beauty and terror of excess.
Ander Monson lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Inspired by the cult Japanese video game Katamari Damacy, these poems increase in size and momentum, rolling more and more into their orbits as they go. Formally inventive and fun, The Available World examines the beauty and terror of excess.
Ander Monson lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Reviews / Votes
Previous reviews in the New York Times Book Review, Booklist, Publishers Weekly (STARRED review), The Village Voice, Library Journal, Bookslut, Bookforum, and Rain TaxiMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Louisville
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
2722 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932511-83-3 (9781932511833)
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Person
Ander Monson is the author of three published books (Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, Other Electricities, Vacationland), and one forthcoming (Vanishing Point, Graywolf, 2010). He is the editor DIAGRAM Magazine and the New Michigan Press. Though he lives in Tucson where he teaches at the University of Arizona, his heart still resides thirty hours northeast by car.