{"id":2090,"date":"2012-01-24T22:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T03:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2012-01-24T22:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T03:57:04","slug":"you-cant-have-everything-where-would-you-put-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/01\/you-cant-have-everything-where-would-you-put-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t Have Everything… Where Would You Put It!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radical Books of 2011, 8\/10<\/h4>\n

\"Bruce<\/a><\/p>\n

You Can’t Have Everything… Where Would You Put It!,<\/a><\/i> Bruce Andrews, Veer Books<\/p>\n

There is no way this book will get past your spam filter:<\/p>\n

facework cootie itsier-off
\nwe are the dream sequences in your conventional cultural life –<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed we are. Here’s verbal salad (French dressing? Russian dressing?) shot through at times with lines of split and reassembled words:<\/p>\n

zy^rit
\nsect^in
\nsing^franchi
\ncres^offi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a delight to apprehend such text, passing words beneath one’s eyes, thinking about what it all might mean and sound like. Looking back now, I wonder if I should have flipped this open and read at random when I encountered it originally. Instead of plodding through, I might have thought for days about a line such as “tractor the Real.” But, as it happens, I can still do that. Although I have everything, I had nowhere to put it. I have to delve in again for specific examples of juxtapositions that Bruce Andrews fashions. The book is no doubt worth reading, scanning, or hashing into – however you want to have it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radical Books of 2011, 8\/10 You Can’t Have Everything… Where Would You Put It!, Bruce Andrews, Veer Books There is no way this book will get past your spam filter: facework cootie itsier-off we are the dream sequences in your conventional cultural life – Indeed we are. Here’s verbal salad (French dressing? Russian dressing?) shot … <\/p>\n

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