Metamerican by Seth Abramson

America has been awaiting the arrival of a poet like this for a generation.

—Barn Owl Review

A major American voice.

—Colorado Review

A MAGNA-CUM-WIERDO SALON PROLIX THE VOLTA A RADICAL TONY HOAGLAND A BETTER POET THAN A STATISTICIAN THE ECONOMIST ENERGETIC THE KENYON REVIEW AMERICA HAS BEEN AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF A POET LIKE THIS FOR A GENERATION BARN OWL REVIEW MENTIONS STEPS MFA PROGRAMS CAN TAKE TO HUMANIZE THE APPLICATION PROCESS CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION A DEEP THINKER STURGILL SIMPSON THIS MAN WAS MEANT TO BLOG HTMLGIANT A SUPERB MODERN POET POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE A BLUSTERING NERD THE SONORA REVIEW LIKE LOOKING AT MY OWN DNA TOSSED INTO A PAPER BAG & SHAKEN UP RON SILLIMAN UNCOMMONLY INTERESTED IN HARD QUESTIONS & HARDER ANSWERS ABOUT HOW TO LIVE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A MAJOR AMERICAN VOICE COLORADO REVIEW EVERYONE WHO MEETS HIM LIKES HIM STEVE ZRIKE CONTEXTUALIZES A METAMODERN POETICS NOTES ON METAMODERNISM ASTUTE THE POETRY FOUNDATION A MASTER DONALD REVELL HIS WEBSITE IS INDISPENSIBLE THE IOWA REVIEW PERFORMS A SLEIGHT OF HAND IN HIS POEMS THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER AN ILL-MANNERED CRANK DAVID LEHMAN AN INTERLOPER BLAKE BUTLER WRESTLES NOT JUST WITH LANGUAGE BUT WITH THE EVENTS LANDSCAPES & WEATHER THAT DETERMINE OUR LIVES DON SHARE WRITES IN A SPECIAL IDIOLECT DAVID SHAPIRO NEVER SAID HE WAS AN IDIOT & NEVER WOULD KENT JOHNSON GENIUS COLE SWENSEN ACCOMPLISHED ROBERT ABRAMSON DISPLAYS A COMMAND OF SIMPLE LANGUAGE THAT CONTINUES TO GROW BEYOND MASTERY NEW HAMPSHIRE CENTER FOR THE BOOK CHAMPIONS AN ARTS MOVEMENT CALLED METAMODERNISM BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR MODERNIST STUDIES ELOQUENT REGINALD SHEPHERD AM HAPPY TO IGNORE EVERYTHING HE WRITES FACEBOOK COMMENT MIMICS THE GLOSSY INSUBSTANTIAL OUTPUT OF THE MEDIA MACHINE VIDA A DANGEROUS LITTLE REVOLUTIONARY SHEEP FRANZ WRIGHT HIS IDEAS STRIKE MANY AS VERY STRANGE THE NEW YORKER MIND-BENDING CRITICISM ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY MUSCULAR ENERGY PETER GIZZI THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE TODAY IOWA PUBLIC RADIO BARMY JACKET2 IS TELLING THE MELANCHOLY TRUTH MAURICE MANNING LIKE WALTER WHITE & STUART SMALLEY JOINING FORCES TO SAVE POETRY FROM POETS TONY TOST A POWERFUL VOICE NOTRE DAME REVIEW XOXO CLAUDIA ABRAMSON DARING HANK LAZER EVIL CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ HIS POETRY MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I CAN DO BETTER & BE BETTER WENDY XU EXPERIENCING ABRAMSON FOR THE FIRST TIME IS A MIXTURE OF BEWILDERMENT & AWE THE DAILY CARDINAL THE MOST REAL PERSON I HAVE EVER MET FRANCES LEVISTON REALLY DOES NOT GET WHAT I DO ROXANE GAY A SCUMBAG WHO TRIES TO PROFIT FROM & THREATEN POETS WITH HIS HARVARD LAWYERING A TWEET A POET & A SCHOLAR PLOUGHSHARES HAS MOVED THE MFA CONVERSATION IN THE DIRECTION OF GREATER TRANSPARENCY THE MILLIONS DID A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK TO PEEL BACK THE LAYERS OF MFA PROGRAMS & GET APPLICANTS TO MAKE MORE INFORMED DECISIONS THE MISSOURI REVIEW THANKS FROM MILLIONS ARTS & LETTERS SETH ABRAMSON IS NOW DOING CONCEPTUAL WRITING OH SWEET IRONY KENNETH GOLDSMITH YEP HE USED TO BE A LAWYER THE LOS ANGELES TIMES LAYS BARE THE VALIDITY OF UNREALITY AMERICAN MICROREVIEWS & INTERVIEWS LOCATES THE SOURCE OF THE DISAFFECTION BY WHICH WE ARE GUIDED SHANE MCCRAE INSIGHTFUL JOHANNES GÖRANSSON METAMODERN SOUNDS IN COUNTRY MUSIC ALLUDES TO RAY CHARLES BY WAY OF SETH ABRAMSON PITCHFORK EXTRAORDINARILY INSIGHTFUL MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW SPOT ON REGARDING FANTASY & ITS RELATION TO OUR WORLD RIDER STRONG VALIANT JULIANNA BAGGOTT WOW MATT FRACTION LOTS OF PEOPLE IN THE POETRY WORLD HATE HIM THE RUMPUS A VIRTUOSO LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS THE WORST WRITER IN AMERICA MICHAEL ROBBINS REFUSES CRANKY SELF-SERVING POSTURES MARK DOTY HIS GENEROSITY OF SPIRIT IS REFLECTED IN HIS GENEROSITY OF DEFINITION PRAIRIE SCHOONER 55 KLOUT I DREAM OF DISAPPEARING SETH ABRAMSON OWES ME TWENTY BUCKS

Seth Abramson is the author of five poetry collections, including Thievery (University of Akron Press, 2013), winner of the 2012 Akron Poetry Prize, and Northerners (Western Michigan University Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose. Currently a doctoral candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison and a columnist for The Huffington Post and Indiewire, he is also Series Co-Editor for Best American Experimental Writing, whose next edition will be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2015. You can find him online at www.sethabramson.net .

.Book Information:

· Paperback: 68 pages

· Binding: Perfect-Bound

· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-194-8

$16

Metamericana by Seth Abrams… by Geoffrey Gatza