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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872866294 02 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100344190 02 0872866297 03 9780872866294 15 9780872866294 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">An Army of Lovers</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>An</TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix>Army of Lovers</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Spahr, Juliana Juliana Spahr Juliana Spahr is an American poet, critic, and editor. She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring. Spahr received the National Poetry Series Award for her first collection of poetry, Response. Her most recent book, Well Then There Now was reviewed in The Nation by Stephen Burt who noted that though it is genre defining, it still provides "the oddity, the density and the emotional resonance of the language we still seek in poems." In 2007 she published, The Transformation, a book of prose which uses the story of three people who move between Hawai'i and New York in order to talk about cultural geography, ecology, anticolonialism, queer theory, language politics, the academy, and recent wars. She is also the author of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs, Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You, and Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity. Spahr edits with Jena Osman the book series Chain Links, and with nineteen other poets she edits of the collectively funded Subpress. She has edited numerous critical anthologies and teaches at Mills College. 2 A01 Buuck, David David Buuck David Buuck is a writer who lives in Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics. From 2003-08 he was associate editor at Artweek, and from 2007-11, the President of the Board of Directors of Small Press Traffic, a literary nonprofit in San Francisco, where he also co-curated the annual Poets Theater festival. The Shunt, a book of poetry about the Bush years, was published in 2009 by Palm Press and was named on several year-end top tens lists at Attention Span. Site Cite City, a collection of cross-genre prose works about the Bay Area, will be published by Futurepoem in 2014. His site-specific, multi-media art project BARGE was featured in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' "Bay Area Now" biennial in 2008, and was awarded the first ever Visual and Cultural Criticism Residency at Mission 17 Gallery in San Francisco. He is also an occasional performer, musician, and dancer, having performed in several venues in the US and more recently as part of Abby Crain's LOOK dance and performance company. 01 eng 112 00 112 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Fiction 01 A picaresque experimental novel, An Army of Lovers is the story of Demented Panda and Koki, two friends trying to be political poets in a time when poetry has lost its ability to effect social change. Their collaboration unleashes a torrent of consumerist excess that morphs into a Gitmo-style torture camp. Our heroes struggle to avoid complicity in the spectacle, yet are unable to overcome it through poetry. Instead it invades their bodies, manifesting itself through blisters and other symptoms, as the poets attempt to move beyond this impasse. Absurdist, fantastic, conceptual, Army is a novel for the Occupy generation. Praise for An Army of Lovers: "An Army of Lovers explores the liminal spaces where cities and individuals come together and stand apart with strange, brainy grace."—Michelle Tea, author of Mermaid in Chelsea Creek "Two of my favorite poets, each with a unique voice, wangle a 'third mind' as they come together in a novel radically different than any I know. Like the 70s Rosa von Praunheim documentary on the 2nd wave gay rights movement (Army of Lovers or The Revolt of the Perverts), the newly minted Army of Lovers takes a stage crowded with multiple images, intent on creating a moment of revolutionary stillness inside the noise. Authors Spahr and Buuck, who appear in this novel as Bay Area poets 'Koki' and 'Demented Panda,' style it up all the way from magical realism to 'new journalism' and Raymond Carver Cathedralspeak, but it's the weary 'I can't go on. I'll go on' optimism at which wounded veterans of the army of lovers excel. Theirs is a rigorous book, and a book of marvels, with something funny, something painful, stirring on every page."—Kevin Killian, author of Spreadeagle "Too often in the poetry world, self-awareness means dreary, self-important self-absorption. Thank goodness that is not the case here. This picaresque story about the 'particular lostness' of poetry, the ways poems always win and the lives of self-described 'mediocre' poets is actually pretty hilarious! It's also smart, incisive and politically astute. Now, to the barricades!" —Rebecca Brown, author of American Romances: Essays Praise for Juliana Spahr's Well Then There Now: "Spahr's fifth book of imaginative writing (both poems and prose) should be a blockbuster, a lasting disturbance; a work of crisp wit, bizarre conjunctions and ultimately enduring moral authority; it is also the best, and perhaps the most widely accessible, thing that Spahr has done."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Praise for David Buuck's The Shunt: "The Shunt's affective agenda is thus the exact opposite of ironic cynicism, which is one of this brilliantly discomforting book's most delightful surprises."—Sianne Ngai, Professor, Stanford University and author of Our Aesthetic Categories 02 In the age of Occupy, "An Army of Lovers" re-asks the question, what is the relationship between poetry and politics? 08 "This experimental work is not for the faint of heart, but it is laced with meditations that will appeal to readers concerned with poetry's role in the world."-- Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100344190/images/87286100344190S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100344190 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 02 20131015 08 16 oz