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Ballots From The DeadPoems by J.J. Tindall * You have before you the greatest collection of American poetry published in the new millennium. By a Chicago author. For a Chicago website. If you like that sort of thing. But then, maybe, truly, it is the best-in-class. After all, who else can claim Ode to a Hoover Bagless Cyclonic Action Quik-Broom with On-Board Tools ("Quiet machine, soft machine, I machine") in the same breath as Five Boys On a Golf Course ("We who remained drove a van to Arlington, VA, for the military funeral, smoking joints and telling stories. The Navy bore pall for us all.")?
"I crave release from the heft of dreams," J.J. writes in Carnivale. J.J.'s dreams are heavy, but must they be so? No reader with any depth of soul could think so. His poetry is about the constant interference by outside forces of those things which we - he - really cherish. Or ought to. A life of dreams shouldn't be so hard when the dreams are so real. * GREAT EXPECTATIONS It is the best of cities where will let me I made a bet. You bet! My dirty angels. I knew I'd need space When I was just a boy Ghetto. Burlington-Northern got me where I need to Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Wax Trax, Bizarre Bazaar, eventually Max Hey: I didn't go The city. Dick Roeper, Mick Caplan, Salerno. Evan, Vinnie . . . Bar, Checkerboard Motherfucking If we stay?). Souled American . . . Then, I made myself take Of faith, a virtual swan-dive Onstage In a Not only did I survive, I found myself A city * Remarkably engaging, literate, provocative and funny poems by acclaimed Chicago poet J.J. Tindall, selected from his residency at the Beachwood Reporter, Chicago's most distinguished online journal of politics and culture. "Gifted lyric-ranconteur J.J. Tindall's style is pure quicksilver. It glides unpredictably from ecstatic Beat testimony to Raymond Carver-esque elevation of the ordinary to the sublime." - Listen.com "Low on pretension and high on conversational accessibility. Similar artists: Charles Bukowski, Jim Carroll." - Real.com * Posted on July 26, 2010 |
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