face blindness
“When you're ready to venture off the daily grid of life-as-planned,
enter face blindness where "a fetish object is the thing/to
which we want/to give and to witness" and become privy to
and part of "moments your camera could never capture."
You'll find no prescriptions of an average or calming sort here.
Megan A. Volpert's full-length debut startles and spirits
us through the invisible and daring detritus of dialogue and story,
NYC and Normal, Illinois, "name pong poetry" and "copyright
infringement," letters laced with love for John Yau and Roland
Barthes, phantasmagoria and prosopagnosia, fecund cullings from
the minds of Jacques Derrida and Friedrich Nietzsche, ambling
pathos and anxious heart, and everything in between.
I am envious of Volpert's renderings for all the right reasons:
face blindness does not merely go beyond the boundaries of poetry
as many reviewers like to tout, but rather, this woman's words
illustrate the fantastic meandering streets, skyways, and mind
jetties that poetry itself can build and carry us along, and even
encourages us to get out of our chairs and walk with that contagious
energy, impassioned scenery included. In fact, if one looks hard
into the face of this book's pluralities, you will eventually
recognize it belongs onstage somewhere, behaving badly and willfully,
for our own voyeuristic benefit.”
-Amy King
“Megan A. Volpert has in common with other high-rolling
ornery genius pistols a lot of nerve, a lot of heart, and an inability
to leave anything said alone. She's an original imp of the perverse
well tended and set loose. Nothing's forbidden, nothing's unquestioned,
well, perhaps only just the divine poem to which she both aspires
and will not but barely in the poems in face blindness touch.
She's off on a great adventure, her misbehavior flagrantly fuels
her fine excesses. Stay out of her way if you can't take a little
mussing up.”
–Dara Wier
"Smart, new, odd. I have not seen so many minds this singular,
this energetic and weird and inventive in some time. Which of
these several authorities is a better writer is immaterial, as
together all these Megan Volperts amount to an invincibly bright
collaboration. This is a book that plays freeze tag with the possible."
–Gabriel Gudding
Megan A. Volpert is a Chicagoan with a Master of Fine Arts from
Louisiana State University. She teaches High School English in
Atlanta. This is her first book.
Book Information:
· Paperback: 64 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] (Dec 2006)
· ISBN :1-934289-25-6
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