DATA by Seth Abramson

by Seth Abramson

"A deep thinker...and a philosopher." — Rolling Stone "A magna-cum-weirdo." — Salon "Mind-bending..." — Entertainment Weekly "A major American voice." — Colorado Review "A virtuoso." — Los Angeles Review of Books "A powerful voice." — Notre Dame Review "Champions an arts movement called 'metamodernism.'" — British Association for Modernist Studies "Uncommonly interested in hard questions, and harder answers, about how to live." — Publishers Weekly

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About the author

Seth Abramson is author of The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009) and a contributing author to The Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). In 2008 he was awarded the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize by Poetry. His poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2008, Poetry, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Poets & Writers, and New American Writing. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a doctoral student in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

[Mark Staniforth · Rating 5 out of 5]

First I read WHITE PRIVILEGE. Then I read Statements of Concept. Then I read Acknowledgements. Then I read part of STRANGERS. Then I read part of (B): An Alphabetical List of Significant Manic Pixie Dream Girls. Then I Googled "Manic Pixie Dream Girls". Then I read E-DEATH #4. Then I read THE METAMODERNIST MANIFESTO. Then I re-read Statements of Concept. Then I read DEFEAT AT KRASNY BOR. Then I read JAMES FRANCO BY JAMES FRANCO BY SETH ABRAMSON. Then I watched television. Then I re-read part of (B): An Alphabetical List of Significant Manic Pixie Dream Girls.Then I started writing a review on Goodreads. Then I abandoned a review on Goodreads. Then I wrote a poem. Then I posted the poem on Facebook, and someone replied: "Ermmmmm?"Then I showed someone else (B): An Alphabetical List of Significant Manic Pixie Dream Girls. Then I discussed (B): An Alphabetical List of Significant Manic Pixie Dream Girls. Then I wrote a poem inspired by (B): An Alphabetical List of Significant Manic Pixie Dream Girls. Then I Googled "Seth Abramson". Then I Googled "Metamodernism". Then I Googled "British Metamodernism". Then I updated my blog links. Then I searched for "Seth Abramson" on Amazon. Then I ordered "Best American Experimental Writing 2015" from Amazon. Then I watched television. Then I read REVOLUTION FOR SOME. Then I read LOVE STORY. Then I read MID-AMERICA. Then I re-read Statements of Concept. Then I read BATTLE OF THE BANDS. Then I re-read Statements of Concept. Then I re-read BATTLE OF THE BANDS. Then I Googled "Fuck The Facts". Then I Googled "The Barlow Girl". Then I Googled "Burning Airlines band". Then I Googled "Samantha Fox Touch Me Lyrics". Then I copied-and-pasted the lyrics to "Touch Me" by Samantha Fox into a Word file. Then I Googled "Word randomizer programme". Then I copied-and-pasted the lyrics to "Touch Me" by Samantha Fox into a Word randomizer programme. Then I pasted the results into a Word file. Then I deleted the results. Then I switched off the computer. Then I went to bed.