a gunless tea

by Marco Giovenale

Genres: Poetry

38 pages

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

https://slowforward.net/2014/01/01/mg...
http://slowforward.wordpress.com/texts/

Marco Giovenale (1969) lives and works in Rome. He writes in Italian and (sometimes in) English.

Marco Giovenale vive a Roma, dove lavora come redattore e traduttore. Ha fondato (ed è redattore di) «bina» (2003), gammm.org (2006), puntocritico.eu (2011), eexxiitt (2011), e asemic-net.blogspot.com (2011). È redattore di SCRIPTjr.nl, recognitiones-ii.blogspot.it, sibila.com.br. Collabora ad «alfabeta2» e «l’immaginazione». Cura con M. Guatteri, G.Marzaioli e M. Zaffarano la collana Benway Series. È a sua cura la collana di testi italiani SYN _ scritture di ricerca, delle edizioni IkonaLíber.

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a pretty good read. some the poems are taken from google/other internet experiments and then pieced together-- which means you get some fairly strange pairings and some absolutely outstanding lines! I've written a more fleshed-out review for this chapbook which may eventually show up on Coldfrontmag.com so for now I'll just say to download this and enjoy.

[Nadia]

If it's possible to refer to a piece of literature as being abstract, then this poetry is very abstract. Supposedly it's a "collection of 23 fragments and/or google/sought poems and proses" although I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean.

Figure it out for yourself:
black apricots are chewing a mask they hide
inside their valves.

countries joined in marriage. people had joy. windows opened. depressed teens
slowly decomposed in the morgue. i just wanted to eat my fried unicorn but the
flies swallowed it whole.

bury the dead, they'll live again.

I'm going to have to read this several times.

[Sam · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a small collection of very abstract poetry, some of which has been pieced together from internet experiements resulting in some rather odd word groupings (can think what else to call them). Personally this kind of thing is not really for me as it makes very little sense but it will appeal to the more artistic and brooding reader.

[Juliet · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars

[Genevieve]

here's the link to my review: http://galatearesurrection25.blogspot...