β Scribed by Michael Bazzett
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A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. βYour humor is deft and cutting / my fingers off one by one,β as one poem puts it. Once dismembered, Bazzettβs poems can re-member us and piece together the ways in which we once thought we knew ourselves, creating a new, strange sense of self.
A meditation on who we are, who weβve been, and what we might become, Bazzettβs writing is like a note written in invisible ink: partially what we see on the page, but also but also the βmany dozen doorways that we donβt walk through each day.βYou Must Remember Thisis a consistently slippery, enrapturing collection of poems.
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A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. βYour humor is deft and cutting / my fingers off one
Previews, coming attractions, horror, romance, mystery, even intermissions--you name the type of movie and there's a fiction within this collection to cover it--all written with the exuberance you've come to expect in Robert Coover's writing.
### From Publishers Weekly The interlocking stories in this collection by the author of Gerald's Party follow the program of an old-style afternoon at the movies, with an adventure, a comedy, a musical and shorts. PW found that "although too many of his imaginings are sophomoric and vulgar, a good
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, \*A Night at the Movies\* invents what might have happened in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover's riotously funny screen, doing thin