Information

ISBN
9781844718108
Extent
48pp
Format
Pamphlet
Publication Date
15-Dec-10
Publication Status
Out of print
Subject
Poetry by individual poets
Trim Size
198 x 129mm

Apocapulco

Synopsis

Apocapulco shimmers with the white-hot intensity of a world with minutes to go, with a diction that lances and cauterizes the bloated lyric ego with a single, slick incision. In this breathless, thrilling work Addison dares to stare at what most poets glance aslant: ‘tonight we are in league / and will regurgitate the truth.’” – Scott Thurston

Praise for this Book

Apocapulco shimmers with the white-hot intensity of a world with minutes to go, with a diction that lances and cauterizes the bloated lyric ego with a single, slick incision. Whilst MacSweeney and Bukowski are given apt tribute here, these poems’ clipped cadences and tough enjambments also recall the crystalline mastery of early Wieners – swapping the flophouses of San Francisco for the favelas of Salvador da Bahia. In this breathless, thrilling work Addison dares to stare at what most poets glance aslant: ‘tonight we are in league / and will regurgitate the truth.’

’ —Scott Thurston