[New-Poetry] Advanced Review Copies -- RHODE ISLAND NOTEBOOK (Dalkey Archive Press)

[Gabriel Gudding]

Advanced Review Copies of *Rhode Island Notebook* by Gabriel Gudding are 
now available. 436 pages. Publication Date: Nov. 23, 2007.

Perfect bound copies (in advance uncorrected galley) will be sent to 
interested reviewers.

For a review copy, please query Martin Riker, riker at dalkeyarchive.com. 
Or write to him at Dalkey Archive Press, University of Illinois, 605 E. 
Springfield Ave MC-475, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.

Jacket copy: “Not since *On the Road* has a book been so thoroughly of 
the road. *Rhode Island Notebook*--written in Gudding's Toyota during 
twenty-six roundtrips between Illinois and Rhode Island—-chronicles the 
breakup of a marriage and the separation of a father and daughter. At 
turns angry, comic, kitschy, and lyrical, this book-length poem is an 
exorcism of violence both historical and personal. Ultimately intended 
as a gift for the driver's daughter, the book also includes essays on 
literary narcissism and dung; radio broadcasts; a surreal attack on 
Nancy Reagan; much about Iraq; and the story of one man's friendship 
with the Shenango River.”

Blurbs on jacket:

“Rhode Island Notebook is a modern/postmodern epic as a 
poem-including-everything. An incredibly human/humane book at bottom, it 
is also Gudding’s road of excess, as Blake once had it, leading him (& 
us) to the palace of wisdom.”
-- Jerome Rothenberg

“What might have been an experiment in conceptual writing has emerged 
into an exhilaration that makes me glad I’m still alive, in the midst of 
critique and highways. This is the first 21st-century classic.”
–- Alan Sondheim

Sections, poems, essays from this book were first published in New 
American Writing, Jacket, Aufgabe, LIT, Action Yes, MiPoesias, Salt 
Hill, VeRT, L’Bourgeoizine, Mandorla:Nueva Escritura de Las Américas, 
Spoon River Poetry Review, Court Green, Backwards City, Counterpath 
Online, and in the anthologies, Poetry 30: Thirtysomething American 
Thirtysomething Poets, The Other Voices International Poetry Project, 
and Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses.

A précis of the book will be placed on my website in a week's time: 
http://gabrielgudding.blogspot.com/