| Author/Contributor(s): | Porco, Alessandro |
| Publisher: | a misFit book |
| Date: | 3/19/2005 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
This debut collection presents a poetry of surfaces that, at once, cherishes its Bacchus-like existence and comes to terms with its very impossibility through intelligent, irreverent, and formally sophisticated poems: an ode to Christina Aguilera; a love-sonnet for Rambo; and an epitaph in memory of Sharon Tate.
Porco’s climactic sequence dramatizes, in gonzo fashion, the union of language and forms of poetry — a consummation that erupts from the page, leaving readers feeling a little bit dirrty (that’s right, with two r’s) but, undeniably, wanting more. Ample double entendres and sexual punning; lewd bar-room balladeering; comic revisionist histories that expound, for example, on the origins of the thong; libidinal utopias filled with D-cup superheroes and militant villains — it’s all in the name of good ol’ fashioned silicone fun!