Swoon Noir

by Bruce Andrews

Swoon Noir
by Bruce Andrews
ISBN 978-0-925904-48-5
Poetry
140 pages
$16
2007

Excerpt:

Ache by it better to be booed to back brainpan. Bound Fictitious Object- gingerbready kind of. Don t overtax it, get the muzzle off. The future as a program prompt present, a sad finger in any dike aims full decay nervous in safety vora- cious. No.No. this is action. The luxury of chlorophyll convulsions in stride arraigned as fetish verb. The same soli- tude keeps hope machines going by this overhatching. Quote The Lord is my Shepard and he knows I m gay Quote a low priced car, it s a prestige car. But only a king can escape disso- nance, and kings, not infrequently, go mad. Fanshen.

from''Train Your,'' in Swoon Noir

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

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.