{"product_id":"goosebumps-of-antimatter-hardcover","title":"Goosebumps of Antimatter - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Dorn was tasked by his teacher Olson's obsession with his teacher Pound's Cantos to write a poem containing history, which he subverted by humor (\"Entrapment is this society's sole activity--\u0026amp; only laughter can blow it to rags.\"). Gunslinger, the historical poem containing humor Dorn invented, may be the closest predecessor to boink  Dealing cards at Slinger's table, Dick Martin proposes \"Television is the olive in the martini of chain reaction,\" a line Dorn would have traded on. By comparison, the emergent distraction of funny cowboy poems is merely another noisy fight down the bar. Martin's brand of humor, like the late master's, is determinedly social. Only the clinically mad tell jokes to themselves, and even then Artaud kept on writing for the stage. As neurotically self-absorbed as boink 's speaker is, Dick Martin is paradoxically one of our unblinking social critics--and part of the power of his book derives from his relentless re-estimations of his fate as a plastic card-carrying member of the popular culture it has taken a century for late capitalism to manifest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e from Rich Blevins' review of boink  (see Appendix A)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Martin's Marks does a remarkable thing: it makes metaphysical absurdities sound as conversational as a good joke. What looks like a surrealist writing his will and sounds like an irrepressible stand-up comedian is actually, fresh, green, recognizably original poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Guy Davenport, author of The death of Picasso\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI had great fun reading Richard Martin's stories. They're so relentlessly perverse, so acridly playful. They're driven by a remorselessly exact self-consciousness that refuses to accept the limits of its own powers of expression, a kind of anti-textuality that keeps pulling the rug out from under itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Stephen-Paul Martin, author of The Ace of Lightning\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.75 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703566692659,"sku":"9781947980464","price":107.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VnNJbjhsOHB6b3ByOE5wUUNQSGVRQT09.webp?v=1763330396","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/goosebumps-of-antimatter-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}