[New-Poetry] Dan Boiel

[jforjames at aol.com]

I've overheard better poetry at Starbucks than this...

Someone coined that term 'ultra-talk' poetry, so maybe
we need a new classification, 'infra-talk' poetry.
Finnegan





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From: David Baratier <editor at pavementsaw.org>
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Subject: [New-Poetry] Dan Boiel





Work
by Dan Boehl
Winner of the Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award
Paper Trade: ISBN 978-1-886350-69-4
28 pages, $6 

These poems first appeared in: LIT, Poetry East and Redivider.
Here is a scintillating sample:


Cube, or
7 Complete Strangers of Widely Varying Personality Characteristics are Involuntarily Placed in an Endless Kafkaesque Maze Containing Deadly Traps

Able to take only so much hip-hop and databases,
I get some coffee and shoot-the-shit
with the co-workers there. Times like this
I think about that movie Cube.
The best-worst movie I have ever seen,
it’s about these people who wake up in a giant cube.
Frantically they run around the cube’s identical rooms
discovering each other
and getting bloodbathed by unforeseen traps
set by an unseen boss. It’s a test. If they work together
they live. They fall into the regular 
character types: the soldier, the clown, the babe.
Only the autistic guy lives.
He actually likes the work of not getting
bloodbathed. Tomorrow, I’ll be
somebody's boss. But today
I can confidently count on myself
as someone I would like. 

 

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PO Box 6291
Columbus, OH 43206
http://pavementsaw.org





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PO Box 6291
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http://pavementsaw.org 


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