!! Original first publishing, Grove Press 1982 !!
Condition: Used, very good. See pictures.
Trade paperback
110 pages
isbn 0-394-62412-2-
"MY HEART'S IN THE WRONG PLACE AND IT WANTS TO GO HOME."
- Lydia Lunch
A collaborative effort set in two typefaces--helvetica to indicate the writing of Exene Cervenka; TIMES ROMAN, that of Lydia Lunch--this early 80s pastiche of punk seems spare upon cursory glance. Oftentimes more of a page's space isn't used than the amount that is.
"i took too big a drink out of the devil's punchbowl."
- Exene Cervenka
"I BIT OFF ALL I COULD CHEW AND NEARLY
CHOKED TO DEATH. EMOTIONAL INDIGESTION. mortification.
WE ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMIES AND WE LIKE IT LIKE
THAT."
- Lydia Lunch
Readers mired in traditional poetic forms need not bother: this experimental work is for those interested in villains rather than villanelles; for adventurous types interested in excavating the sublime from within contemporary squalor. However, if viewed with an open mind--and taken within the context of what it is, rather than a stodgy academic context of all it "isn't"--there is brilliance to be found here:
The brilliance of street smarts, the brilliance of broken hearts.
"it was as if.
SO BE IT."
