Absurd Good News

Paperback, limited reprint edition, 40 pages
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x .25"
ISBN: 0981462324
Cover price: $10

"the shut eye bloodshot / yellow to a yolk / intricate / wrinkles all around / the feathered lid." So begins Julien Poirier's dizzying playground of a chapbook, "Absurd Good News." At turns playful and solemn, these poems are as much about the everyday as they are about the cosmic. Like Blake, Poirier sits with what is language, what it can be, a radical embrace of the generative experience of reading. About Poirier, Patrick James Dunagan wrote, "His words are visitors to the reader, accompanied by his cartoon sketched characters who tag along for the ride scattered with frequent delight."