Well, this is a special day. Jason Koo’s first book, which won the 2008 De Novo Prize, came out this week and you can buy it through Amazon.
Since he has a reputation for being something of a rockstar at his readings, my guess is that this book is going to do pretty well in both popular and critical regard. It’s pretty exciting to hold a bound collection of his poems in your hand, and the Trent-Thibodeux-designed cover is just absolutely sick.
This book really has everything in it. No, I mean literally: there’s a hippo, there’s baseball, there’s limousines, there’s baking cookies, there’s sex, there’s text messaging, there are gorgeous lines about “the trees / tossing their heads in the wind like conductors” and “take on the pain of sunlight in your eyes”, there’s highly skilled use of profanity, and everything else.
I’m not alone when I say that this is the poetry you’ve been waiting for.
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