La parola da casa, Serena Piccoli

I just made a few moments to sit down with Funtime, a collection of poetic collaborations between Andrew Lundwall and Adam Fieled.

If you like reading about sex and sexual innuendo, this is the collection for you. The reading process itself is sexualized. Reading it made me remember all those metaphoric pens of the 17th and 18th centuries, but the poems themselves feel more romantic/beat/post-avant. Are these writers carving out a new avenue for the experimental that the rest of us will follow? I’m not sure, but they are writing different pieces, and as their voices whisper back and forth, it seems that they are talking to us. Like Whitman’s intimate pieces with the reader, these pieces are not just descriptions of sex—that could be found done better elsewhere—; rather, they are invitations, they are arms thrown around our shoulders (as a reader, that is not always a comfortable position). The pieces point to the creative, i.e. sexualized, nature of poetic creation through both the interplay between collaborative poets and the interplay between the writer and reader. Basically, even in our age of sexual liberation, the shock value to the reader in this collection seems fresh, and it's definitely worth the read.

Plus, in what other collection would you get the lines “in / excelsis Devo”?