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Portable Altamont

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1552451615
ISBN-13 9781552451618
Publisher Coach House Books
Imprint Coach House Books
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 4th, 2001
Print length 96 Pages
Weight 110 grams
Dimensions 14.20 x 17.10 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification: Poetry by individual poets
Ksh 1,600.00
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A collection of poems that features satires about local and international celebrities. It uses various literary forms to revel in and rearrange pop culture. It also contains an index that turns into a short story about Luke Perry's descent into a shadowy underworld of Parisian intellectuals and terrorists.

Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined Margaret Atwood as a human beatbox, Jessica Simpson applying for arts grants or the Swedish Chef reciting T. S. Eliot? Davis uses every literary form available to revel in and rearrange pop culture. Even the index turns into a short story about Luke Perry’s descent into a shadowy underworld of Parisian intellectuals and terrorists.

A word of warning: this book is a complete and utter fiction. Philip Roth is not David Lee Roth’s brother. Reese Witherspoon is not a Communist cell leader, and Don Knotts has never been a New Age guru. The stuff about Nicole Richie, however, is absolutely true.

Portable Altamont is that rare book that is both incendiary and compulsively readable. Get to it before the lawyers do!


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