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The Available World

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Description

"[Ander Monson's] poems celebrate defiant excess. In this land of scarcity, right-living involves using up what you have, where you have it; otherwise someone might wreck, steal, or use it and you might not get any. A carpe diem for obscure, doomed youth."--Stephen Burt

Inspired by the cult Japanese video game Katamari Damacy, these poems increase in size and momentum, rolling more and more into their orbits as they go. Formally inventive and fun, The Available World examines the beauty and terror of excess.

Ander Monson lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Product Details

PublisherSarabande Books
Publish DateJuly 01, 2010
Pages72
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781932511833
Dimensions8.8 X 5.9 X 0.3 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry, Poetry

About the Author

Ander Monson is the author of three published books (Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, Other Electricities, Vacationland), and one forthcoming (Vanishing Point, Graywolf, 2010). He is the editor DIAGRAM Magazine and the New Michigan Press. Though he lives in Tucson where he teaches at the University of Arizona, his heart still resides thirty hours northeast by car.

Reviews

Previous reviews in the New York Times Book Review, Booklist, Publishers Weekly (STARRED review), The Village Voice, Library Journal, Bookslut, Bookforum, and Rain Taxi

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