Morning Constitutional - Softcover

Magee, Michael

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1889793094 ISBN 13: 9781889793092

Publisher: Spencer Books, 2001

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Poetry. Flarf. "As the title of his book suggests, Michael Magee's poetry buzzes with the legislative, polemical, and liberatory static of American political history: specifically the declarative rhetoric of the founding fathers (from Jefferson and Franklin to Woodward and Bernstein) and its slow refraction into the 'sacred word' of mediaspeak, multicultural cant, and all the cynically mediated chatter that masks the 'historindustry of worlds.' This is social poetry, very serious about its engagement with public discourse, but anarchically ornery in its playful paronomastic splintering...a funked-up powerwalk, an essential dance mix that is not just infectious, but informed" --K. Silem Mohammad.

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About the Author:

MICHAEL MAGEE received a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. His poems have appeared in numerous publications including New American Writing, Callaloo, Lungfull!, Washington Review and CrossConnect. His articles on American Literature have been published in Raritan, Contemporary Literature, Review and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. Founder and editor of the poetry journal COMBO, he teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Rhode Island with his wife Susanna and daughter Anabella.

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A breadcrumb trail of juiced urban monologues, phrasal runs somewhere between Dolphy and Sun Ra, rope-a-dope reports from a guarded ordering bordering on an underdog corner restoration and definitional clarity (A slush fund is dirty money) mark these ante meridian outings, exercising our rights and outlining the space between our laws. Former Philadelphian Magee, who edits the poetry and art zine Combo out of Rhode Island, spins out a multitude of matter-of-fact reports, proof that it's morning, proof of ID, or purchase,/ of still being here, the medivan arriving, the exchange beginning.

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