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“[Ander Monson’s] poems celebrate defiant excess. In this land of scarcity, right-living involves using up what you have, where you have it; otherwise someone might wreck, steal, or use it and you might not get any. A carpe diem for obscure, doomed youth.”—Stephen Burt
Inspired by the cult Japanese video game Katamari Damacy, these poems increase in size and momentum, rolling more and more into their orbits as they go. Formally inventive and fun, The Available World examines the beauty and terror of excess.
Ander Monson lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Price: $16.95
Pages: 72
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Publication Date:
01 July 2010
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781932511833
Format: Paperback
Previous reviews in the New York Times Book Review, Booklist, Publishers Weekly (STARRED review), The Village Voice, Library Journal, Bookslut, Bookforum, and Rain Taxi
Ander Monson is the author of three published books (Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, Other Electricities, Vacationland), and one forthcoming (Vanishing Point, Graywolf, 2010). He is the editor DIAGRAM Magazine and the New Michigan Press. Though he lives in Tucson where he teaches at the University of Arizona, his heart still resides thirty hours northeast by car.