Fred Moten

Jim Behrle

Published to coincide with the poets' reading at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 2002, this back-to-back chapbook presents exciting work from two remarkable young poets. Fred Moten's poems spark with flavor, fierce downward twists of vibe and jive ... Jim Behrle's repetition and scattered imagery create chain reactions on the page ... Together in this chapbook, these poets claim their own space and their work is amplified by the presence of the other. --Small Press Distribution.

Poems

Poetry. Jim Behrle "has written a great book of poetry. . .Perhaps it's more like souvenirs from this megalomaniacal persona's adventures in mass culture. . .It's a cliche to talk about how in collage there is a tension between the original context of the collaged materials and the art piece. But I think Jimmy uses that tension incredibly well. It's not so much a tension between an original context and a poem as between a total commodity culture and a persona adrift in that culture - the persona is to such a large extent created by this culture (the sexual bragging, the stalking, the masturbating) but the persona still has enough autonomy to muck things up"-Johannes Goransson, coeditor of Action Books. Jim Behrle's poems have appeared most recently in Cannibal and The Tiny. Behrle lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Jim Behrle

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