
Mopes
A Book in Three Acts
Kenneth Reveiz(Author)
Fence Books (Publisher)
Published on 6. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-944380-24-3 (ISBN)
Description
"With unrelenting indignation and remarkable tenderness, Kenneth Reveiz gives voice to the razing of respectability while mending the fissures of a body's abjection in the totalizing ether of whiteness. In its three-act structure, MOPES directs a series of scene-changes that oscillate abruptly in mood and matter-a riotous counterethnographic anti-monument; a gruesome video game killing spree reflecting yet another day in the United States; performances of laughter and boredom as a cover for affliction; and as many-sided attributions of sex as to queer 'class hatred under the moonlight.' Reveiz punctuates with lol's and heart-signs, or with mimicries of Elizabethan English, to throttle the artifice of establishment value. In strains at once breakneck, salacious, mordant, and loudly opposed, Reveiz seeks a poetry tantamount to the 'most fucking amazing fully distanceless thing'--that is, unapologetic and adequate to the task of the present. --Roberto Tejada, author of Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness: History & Metaphor"--
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-944380-24-3 (9781944380243)
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Person
Kenneth Reveiz is a poet and screenwriter from Queens, NY. A Yale graduate and former elected official in New Haven, CT, Kenneth is a Truman Capote Literary Trust Fellow at the California Institute of the Arts.