That familiar defamiliarization of Melvin Edwards's art betokens the return of the original firespitter. Jayne Cortez' s first book since THE BEAUTIFUL BOOK is, as it happens, this beautiful book from Hanging Loose Press. The last "new & selected" volume from Cortez was 1984's COAGULATIONS (though the 2002 JAZZ FAN LOOKS BACK really did look back, it was limited to poems related to the music), so this is a particulraly useful publication for those of us who want to order Cortez titles for teaching.How's this for a post modern?
"DEFINITIONS"
Democracy is a word
made up by
dispossessed porcupines
in the rectum of another word
called modernity
that's why
when it comes to puffing cigarettes
the masses are uncontrollable
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