Mopes /
"With unrelenting indignation and remarkable tenderness, Kenneth Reveiz gives voice to the razing of respectability while mending the fissures of a body's abjection in the totalizing ether of whiteness. In its three-act structure, MOPES directs a series of scene-changes that oscillate abru...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hudson, NY :
Fence Books,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "With unrelenting indignation and remarkable tenderness, Kenneth Reveiz gives voice to the razing of respectability while mending the fissures of a body's abjection in the totalizing ether of whiteness. In its three-act structure, MOPES directs a series of scene-changes that oscillate abruptly in mood and matter-a riotous counterethnographic anti-monument; a gruesome video game killing spree reflecting yet another day in the United States; performances of laughter and boredom as a cover for affliction; and as many-sided attributions of sex as to queer "class hatred under the moonlight." Reveiz punctuates with lol's and heart-signs, or with mimicries of Elizabethan English, to throttle the artifice of establishment value. In strains at once breakneck, salacious, mordant, and loudly opposed, Reveiz seeks a poetry tantamount to the "most fucking amazing fully distanceless thing"-that is, unapologetic and adequate to the task of the present. -roberto tejada, author of still nowhere in an empty vastness: history & metaphor"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 83 pages : color illustration ; 26 cm |
| Awards: | Fence Modern Poets Series Prize, 2022 |
| ISBN: | 1944380248 9781944380243 |