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The Nines
Poetry. Of his text, poet Christian Peet writes, "THE NINES might be read also as 5) unrelated questions parading as definite answers, 6) an act of resistance against narrative's stranglehold on meaning-making, via the delimiting of causes and effects, 7) a parody non-fiction's throat-clearing seriousness and eagerness to impart 'facts,' 8) an indictment of the privileging of the intellect over the senses-the hallmark of Civilization-and thus, ultimately...9) an indictment of the very idea of Civilization, that ecocidal Moloch not one fang less terrible for being a complete sham." In the THE NINES Peet creates a framework of intertextuality with an incredibly diverse range of works-ranging from Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time to Curtis Marlow's Breakdancing, Anne Waldman' and Marilyn Webb's Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute to Kenneth Clark's Landscape into Art-creating a book of poems as energetic and iconoclastic as its sources.
- GenresPoetry
32 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Christian Peet
3 books27 followersChristian Peet is presently exploring the intersecting phenomena of crime and magic, and is the author of a collection of cross-genre postcards written in an alien language,
Big American Trip
(Shearsman Books), as well as the author of two limited-edition chapbooks of absurdist lyric essays,
Pluto: Never Forget
(Interbirth Books) and The Nines (Palm Press). Peet's work also appears in the anthologies A Best Of FENCE: The First Nine Years (Fence Books, ed. Rebecca Wolff, et al) and A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (Chain Links, eds. Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young), as well in journals and magazines online and in print, including Denver Quarterly, Octopus Magazine, Montevidayo, SleeepingFish, and Trickhouse.
Peet is the publisher and founding editor of Tarpaulin Sky Press, disseminating hybrid- /cross- /trans- genre texts and innovative poetry and prose through the publication of trade paperbacks, hand-bound books, and a literary magazine that appears online and in print. Although known for their staunch refusal to be anything other than "Other," Tarpaulin Sky Press titles are glowingly reviewed in a wide variety of venues, including After Ellen, The Nation, VICE, Publishers Weekly, Time Out New York, Library Journal, American Book Review, HTML Giant, Hyperallergic, and TriQuarterly. Among the press's three dozen titles are books by Ana Božičević, Jenny Boully, Danielle Dutton, Johannes Göransson, Gordon Massman, Joyelle McSweeney, Joanna Ruocco, and Kim Gek Lin Short.
Peet taught Creative Writing and Poetry workshops as well as various Literature courses in New York City and Vermont until he began writing and publishing full-time in an undisclosed location somewhere between Sacramento and 15th-century Italy.
Peet is the publisher and founding editor of Tarpaulin Sky Press, disseminating hybrid- /cross- /trans- genre texts and innovative poetry and prose through the publication of trade paperbacks, hand-bound books, and a literary magazine that appears online and in print. Although known for their staunch refusal to be anything other than "Other," Tarpaulin Sky Press titles are glowingly reviewed in a wide variety of venues, including After Ellen, The Nation, VICE, Publishers Weekly, Time Out New York, Library Journal, American Book Review, HTML Giant, Hyperallergic, and TriQuarterly. Among the press's three dozen titles are books by Ana Božičević, Jenny Boully, Danielle Dutton, Johannes Göransson, Gordon Massman, Joyelle McSweeney, Joanna Ruocco, and Kim Gek Lin Short.
Peet taught Creative Writing and Poetry workshops as well as various Literature courses in New York City and Vermont until he began writing and publishing full-time in an undisclosed location somewhere between Sacramento and 15th-century Italy.
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