Bob Perelman
JACK AND JILL IN TROY
by Bob Perelman
Bob Perelman’s latest book, Jack and Jill in Troy, makes use of the rapid clarity of Homer and the elemental incantations of nursery talk to create a compelling array of poems that speak to our present moment with tragic humor and urgent, skeptical directness.
THE FUTURE OF MEMORY
by Bob Perelman
“Bob Perelman is one of our wittiest poets, but his new book, The Future of Memory, is as scary as it is funny. It presents the poem itself as doomed human subject in time. The poet is both an emblem of Western subjectivity and the very figure of the fool….”
IFLIFE
by Bob Perelman
“IFLIFE presents some of the wittiest, politically prescient--and best--American poems of this new century. The scope of the collection is prodigious, from the war in Iraq to domestic life, from the state of literary theory to Greek myth, from Hegel and Freud to parents and babies….”
FACE VALUE
by Bob Perelman
“The First World examines our historical(hysterical) moment with the liberated coherence of a Brecht or Rabelais. Perelman's demolition of inscribed cultured myths repersents a celebratory reawakening of language to its larger conseqences….”
VIRTUAL REALITY
by Bob Perelman
Virtual reality is a computer-generated environment that seems real butisn't; Virtual Reality, the book, makes clear that the experience predates the technology. These brilliant and often hilarious poems expose the rotten scaffolding of the ideologically generated "private" world,and reconnect its elegances to their social and intellectual consequences.