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The third full-length collectionby Julien Poirier, Out of Print is a truly bicoastal volume, reflecting the poet's years in New York as well as his return to his Bay Area roots. Consider it a meetinghouse between late New York School and contemporary California surrealism, a series of quips intercepted from America's underground poetry telegraph, or an absurdist mirror held up to consumerist culture. "Welcome Julien Poirier! What a distinct inspired voice. His work is abundant in surprise. His musical,often bonkers play of language is, for me, a source of delight & revelation." David Meltzer "Julien Poiriers poems calibrate the vernacular in a sublime mathematics of commonalities. The effect is that of feelings on the run, enunciated clearly. In a sudden down-draught'Youre wind, you melt on my tongue'hell take the contemporary love poem into new stretches of believability while knowingly calling to account the failings that, whether perennial or merely topical, hem round ourselves to disastrous effect. For, no mistake, Out of Print means a forceful wake-up call, allowing as how for this old world the time for meaningful action may well have run out and weve joined the fabled damned

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Author

Poirier, Julien, author

Publisher

San Francisco: City Lights Publishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780872867048

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14