The Lateral
By Jake Kennedy
2010
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The Lateral is a highly original and experimental book from a nimble poetic mind. It includes an elegiac found-long-poem that gathers all the “Acker” keyword tags from the Flickr database and reapplies them as words-of-lament for the revolutionary artist-writer Kathy Acker (1947-97), a series of prose-poem-ruminations that contemplate the optimal conditions for the poetry, and a section of poems that can only be described as the vulgar, unkempt cousin of Hugh Prather’s Notes to Myself.
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Author
Jake Kennedy
Author · 5 books
From the cover of "The Lateral": Jake Kennedy's writing has appeared in "McSweeney's Internet Tendency," "Pissing Ice Anthology: New Canadian Poets," "Drunken Boat," "Kiss Machine," and "The Diagram." His BookThug chapbook entitled "Hazard" won the 2006 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Jake also helped edit, with his artist friend Paola Poletto, "Boredom Fighters: A Graphic Poem Anthology" (Tightrope Books) in 2008.
