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Empire Burlesque begins with a romp through the Journals of Lewis and Clark and ends with cameo appearances by Ambrose Bierce, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound (in drag), Andy Warhol, and even King Kong. Mark Svenvold was inspired to this approach, which he describes as that of a "clown lost in the Library of Babel," by the letters of Jules Laforgue, who believed clowns had achieved true wisdom. With this collection the author shares Ezra Poundian-inflected poems that are funny, that are as serious as they come, and that realign the personal with the historical.
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Stacey Doucet
reviewed Empire Burlesque on December 03, 2013
Empire Burlesque
4 stars is the appropriate rating for this book which is made up entirely of poems w/ four stanzas and each stanza a quatrain. At first, it seems as though the author was very limited by the constraints of this type of poem, but it starts to feel as though he is showing off. Every poem is good even though they are restricted by form. The entirety is somewhat incredible to behold, but none of the individual poems really stand out. Every one of them is excellent, but no one poem rises above the others as truly inspiring, unique, or breath-taking. I would highly recommend this to anyone who loves poems that grasp language in beautiful and creative ways.
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