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Although the titles of some of the selections in this collection (``Gespensterwellen'' or ``Counting Her Syllables Before They're Hatched'') suggest nonsense, it is enigma that results instead. McManus's poems and one short prose piece juxtapose life from the tabloids against a poetic vision in which sense is apt to jitter into fragments as the attention focuses. ``Splashwater Falls the Shock / Wave the Shooting Gallery / rhythmic percussion is African melody / more European this dismal cock / galvanizing ritual just because Peewee was framed.'' Intimate confession lies alongside crass or ridiculous fantasies in a matrix of ...
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Although the titles of some of the selections in this collection (``Gespensterwellen'' or ``Counting Her Syllables Before They're Hatched'') suggest nonsense, it is enigma that results instead. McManus's poems and one short prose piece juxtapose life from the tabloids against a poetic vision in which sense is apt to jitter into fragments as the attention focuses. ``Splashwater Falls the Shock / Wave the Shooting Gallery / rhythmic percussion is African melody / more European this dismal cock / galvanizing ritual just because Peewee was framed.'' Intimate confession lies alongside crass or ridiculous fantasies in a matrix of many barriers and abandoned hints. The middle-aged narrator of ``Smash and Scatteration,'' having displayed his sexy and forthright ``fiancee Linda Krajacik'' (`` `Yo, tell me about it, Mr. Premature / Ejaculation,' she snaps, whapping a palm with a fist''), goes on in ``Wisconsin,'' another piece, to ogle the body of nubile teenager Katie Krajacik, who plays ``center field on my daughter Mairead's fast-pitch softball team.'' Should we sort it out, leave it alone or call the police? McManus's dada verve gains more than a little from its Chicago context. ``Slash Art,'' which he terms a ``manifesto,'' offers: ``In the meantime / people who read books, employ good old fugal procedure, and understand rules / can change quickly will make much more / interesting art, and much much more money.'' (July)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060969943
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 7/28/1993
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 128

Meet the Author

James McManus
James McManus
James McManus is a novelist and poet, most recently winner of the Peter Lisagor Award for sports journalism. He teaches writing and comparative literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, including a course on the literature and science of poker.

Table of Contents

Centrifuge: Islets of Langerhans 5
Triptych 7
Twelfth Night 12
My Father's Sunglasses 13
Counting Her Syllables Before They're Hatched 14
Carpenter Enzyme 15
Post Dance 16
Bacon Dance 17
Gespensterwellen 20
Hubbard Woods 22
Slash Art 27
Smash and Scatteration 35
Wisconsin 47
Great America 57

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