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Keith Tuma & jUStin!katKO's Holiday in Tikrit is a chapbook intended to wake us up from the slumber of continual war. As you might guess from the title, it's an anti-war rant full of energy and pictures.
Additionally, I like how they play with form in this work. The chapbook is one long poem with the "dirty" words covered with black boxes. Are they suggesting that the process of the war is being covered up. Are the black boxes black boxes? They seem to be telling off the system of covering over by using the black boxes for the harshest language they have.
Keith Tuma & jUStin!katKO's Holiday in Tikrit is a chapbook intended to wake us up from the slumber of continual war. As you might guess from the title, it's an anti-war rant full of energy and pictures.
we renamed the nations and turned off the magnetsThe writers here seem more like guerrilla soldiers than traditional poets, and I like to read the reactions of U.S. poets to the actual events of our times. U.S. poets too often stray from actual political poetry. That said, I would like to know how their collaboration worked. Who wrote what? Do they still remember? Did the collaborative project help them create all the energy that gets wrapped up in this short chapbook? As a short epic, how did they manage to craft the narrator of the collective?
we subverted cell-phone towers and ransacked the cabinets
we rediscovered electricity and prepared to evaporate
we researched the best way to hotwire a Hummer
Additionally, I like how they play with form in this work. The chapbook is one long poem with the "dirty" words covered with black boxes. Are they suggesting that the process of the war is being covered up. Are the black boxes black boxes? They seem to be telling off the system of covering over by using the black boxes for the harshest language they have.
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