Devotional Forensics by Joseph Kidney
A hallmark of Kidney’s already distinguished early career, Devotional Forensics shows exceptional range.
A hallmark of Kidney’s already distinguished early career, Devotional Forensics shows exceptional range.
Unwashed gives us poetry where a green “2000 Chrysler Neon”, “Dragon Ball Z” and “grainy 240-pixel videos” have the same poetic value as “the kings of old Egypt”, the lives of Dr. King. and Malcolm X, or the hagiographies of Buddha and Krishna.
Geoff Bouvier has produced a kind of long poem we haven’t seen for a long time in North America. Us from Nothing is an experiment in the epic that isn’t either doggerel or primarily parody.