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Complications
Poetry. COMPLICATIONS is the second full-length poetry collection by Oakland-based poet Garrett Caples. Reflecting the moral disintegration of the post-9/11 world, COMPLICATIONS is an even wilder, darker, funnier exploration of poetic consciousness than its predecessor, THE GARRETT CAPLES READER. From semiotic reportage to automatic writing, oulipian constraint to straightforward elegy, COMPLICATIONS is an eclectic tour de force in the service of a fundamental proposition: "surreality is real." About THE GARRETT CAPLES READER, Philip Lamantia earlier said, "a wonderful book of prose and poetry" while Robert Creeley called it "a lovely piece of work all the way through."
127 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2007
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June 26, 2009
The final section "Four Tune" is up there with Harryette Mullen for musicalalalaness. I got all excited at the title "Prufrock Shakur" probably overstimulated myself and then let myself down, probably not the poem's fault, probably. The short lines leak thru the tightness. Why is this so hard to do? Hard to leak in that way. I guess for Garrett I have to pass on that compliment of compliments, you got some flava. I wish I had some. I like him sitting on top of Michael Palmer and giving him a noogie in "Chanson de Googoo." Calls him a "lucid cloud." Jesus. That's pretty much it. Michael Palmer's blue jeans are lucid and he rides around in them like a grey Latinate cloud, quod quod quod, it looks like rain.
All hail Jeff Clark, Winner of Project Book Cover. Boom.
All hail Jeff Clark, Winner of Project Book Cover. Boom.
February 4, 2008
I will review this on my blog shortly.
It's a very good book.
He's in love with Barbara Guest. That's a good poet to fall in love with.
Sometimes he achieves her legerete.
He breaks a couple rules about what to do and what not do with your poetry book. I like that.
He's sort of an outsider insider, if that makes sense.
He strikes me as very pissed off, but very much in love with the world when he's existing inside poetry.
I can relate.
I think he should have come up with a better title though.
It's a very good book.
He's in love with Barbara Guest. That's a good poet to fall in love with.
Sometimes he achieves her legerete.
He breaks a couple rules about what to do and what not do with your poetry book. I like that.
He's sort of an outsider insider, if that makes sense.
He strikes me as very pissed off, but very much in love with the world when he's existing inside poetry.
I can relate.
I think he should have come up with a better title though.
August 31, 2009
I'm a BIG FAN of this book and was fortunate to hear him read from it! I've just posted a PhillySound feature of Garrett Caples where we discuss this book. There's also a new poem in the feature, which you can see at this link: http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_...
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