A central, or maybe the central theme of this book is a matter of defining words, but what we have is hardly a dictionary. Instead, the idea is to underline or set up particular words within a context of subjective linguistic experience so that the “meanings” created are protean, slippery, and endlessly suggestive. As words really are, in spite of any attempt to “define” them. The numerous devices and methods used to set up the lexicon under examination are constantly variable and this process is one of the delights of the book. Part two takes this a step further, as it seems to be a kind of cyber-distillation of the processes in part one. In short, this book, with its contrasting mix of voices and points of views, is well worth investigating and re-investigating numerous times.

—John M. Bennett

Theorem meets lyric meets the apocalypse in Thierry Brunet’s poem-utterances, which ripple out into the texture of Waste like confessions dashed on an EKG strip or in Morse code by a beached warrior-traveler-poet. Brunet writes chaotic, revolutionary bits from the most ardent depths of his pacemaker, routinely tossing tiny bombs of merriment into this spinning verbal fray. Like Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, whose story he quotes, he shows the poet where he is most horrible: against the digital skyline of the contemporary zeitgeist. Waste is a punk sideshow worth its weight in bliss.

—Amy King

A computer age, found language, utterly contemporary collection--Brunet’s Waste is masterful and playful; it breaks through language’s binaries with moments of doubt and rebellion, deconstructing the concept of end in favor of presence. The collection exists in an in-between space, tracing fragmentary patterns in the shore sand before us.

—William Allegrezza

 

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Thierry Brunet is currently living in Antibes, on the French Riviera. His poems and illustrated texts appear or are forthcoming in Cricket Online Review, Mathematical Poetry, Word For/ Word, Textimagepoem, WORK, Venereal Kittens,  Sous Rature, Danse Macabre.

Winner of the 2008 Aunia Kahn Creative Writing Contest, Brunet has an avant poetry e-book, Codex Beauty, available from BlazeVOX