Give Em Enough Rope

by Bruce Andrews

Book by Andrews, Bruce

Genres: Poetry

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1985

About the author

Bruce Andrews is an experimental poet, performance artist, literary theorist & recently retired (after 38 years) left-wing professor of political science. As Musical Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers, he has created sound designs and, in performance, live mixes of music & text for over two decades of performances.Most recent of a dozen or so big books is last year’s "You Can’t Have Everything… Where Would You Put It!", followed by a chapbook, "Yessified (Sally’s Edit)" celebrating the Andrews Symposium and its expanded archive, online at www.fordhamenglish.com/bruce-andrews, with links to interviews, performance texts, poetry, collaborations, and critical essays on his work. Another online archive (and interactive project) materialized on April 1, 2014 as a curated 25 hour ‘twitter sculpture’ [Twitter.com @BruceAndrews25h], a 300 poem sequence.

Reviews

[Restfulsimulation · Rating 5 out of 5]

incredible

[Ron Henry · Rating 4 out of 5]

I [used to?] find it hard to consume large chunks of Andrews's fragmented, stream-of-disjointed-political-consciousness poetry in single sittings, so I was surprised how much I liked this collection of several longish pieces when I finally pulled it out of the to-be-read shelves the other day and plowed my way through a number long passages.