Author Description

Review What's at stake in Kevin Sampsell's writing is language and its close proximity to the cusp of danger--too close to bodies, violence, deviance, pleasure, excess. His forms deform and reform poetry, from the dead echoes of Whitman and William Carlos Williams to the voice of a hooker down on the corner and back to Courtney love. He manages to infiltrate consumer culture with complex weaponry, and in that effort he shows us the inside out of the bodies we've bought. He is unflinching in his drive to open the word up to its inner workings. Blasted open, language comes alive again in its most pre-animate chaos. Remember when reading undid you? Sampsell asks us--half nostalgically and half with fierce vengeance--to read again. Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Her Other Mouths and Editor of two girls review -- Reviewer Product Description An odd collection of deconstructional poetry experiments and other less-confusing musings. About the Author Kevin Sampsell lives in Portland, Oregon. His stories, poems, collages, and journalism have appeared in many anthologies, journals and magazines around the US and Canada.