from Effing Press: LYRIC POETRY AFTER AUSCHWITZ by Kent Johnson

Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions to the War

by Kent Johnson

44 pages w/ code orange end papers

$7.00

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I think "Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz" is by far the most relevant

poem for/in/about this War… It is a poem for our time.

--Ethan Paquin

Like the Jews, if Kent Johnson didn’t exist, someone would have to

invent him. His mind leaks nomads...

--Alan Sondheim

This collection finds Johnson representing our fiendish blind spots,

the nature of those far cries of human murderousness alongside

the fragility of identity and dignity, wielding homeopathically this

seemingly bottomless, merciless virulence, this miasma, in the

hope of helping to replenish the means of our deliverance.

--Lissa Wolsak

Finally, a gringo poet ready to offend all takers, even while

defending the likes of me. Many of these poems push you off the

long chow line of mutual admiration, asking where you stand right

now. Walk in at your own risk: Kent Johnson takes no prisoners.

--Ammiel Alcalay

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