Action Kylie 9781934639009, 1934639001
Poetry. "Kylie Minogue, more than muse, is K. K.'s aesthetic m.o., his ammo. Around her name and image, he cir
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her name and image, he circulates the particles of his own uncanny idiom, which is unlike anything in contemporary American poetry. Killian works every instrument in the band; he sneaks up behind meaning, and makes it sing. Somehow, in the midst of defamiliarization, Killian's voice remains companionable and comforting. Action Kylie is a book I will turn to when I want to remember that literature can regenerate authenticity as well as
KEVIN KILLIAN
Kylie Minogue, more than muse, is K. K.'s aesthetic m.o., his ammo. Around
renege it. Killian plays with multiple rhetorics and codes, all in the pursuit of his own school of Action Poetry, in which I wish quickly to enroll. —Wayne KOESTENBAUM
“But what does one do with one’s enthusiasms? Where do they keep?” asks Kevin Killian. His answers—green fairy-light—arrive via both ancient tongue twisters) by Killian’s generosity. As much as he’s a disco Boswell to Kylie Minogue’s unlikely Samuel Johnson (various Hodges in attendance), Killian’s our Craigslist Walt Whitman: tenacious sage, he contains multitudes, embracing the least noticed evidence of life—revealing its radical transparency, all the while acknowledging its native mystery and sadness.
ACTION KYLIE
poetic modes (invocations, odes) and ones newly sanctioned (anagrams,
—Bruce HAINLEY
Have you heard of Kylie Minogue? The shining tormented pop star who reminds Kevin Killian of himself? She, with her plastic sarcasm that suddenly breaks into meaning; her sincerity that like a love song is completed and confusion of signifiers and signs (these days, who can tell the difference?). She, writing these poems, keeping the balance between significance and emptiness, weighed down by loss and disaster, but shocked by the power of love. —Kristin PREVALLET ISBN 978-1-934639-00-9
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by artifice; her true feelings that are revealed in the magnificent instability
KEVINKILLIAN/ ACTION KYLIE