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Alien Vs. Predator (2012)

by Michael Robbins(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0143120352 (ISBN13: 9780143120353)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Penguin Books

review 1: The work of Michael Robbins in Alien vs. Predator is wild and playful and hilarious and nasty and richly composed. It’s that blissful moment of danger and fun when being spun around on a playground carousel by Frederick Seidel at mach speeds, buzzed on Red Dog, a Nicki Minaj/Stooges mash-up blasting from a boombox. It says, “Fuck your notions” in formal wear. It pops the culture and cops the language of the last twenty-five years, twisting and tearing it apart only to shock you with the beauty of the burning heart beneath. It’s awesome.
review 2: Expected to adore it, but merely enjoyed it. Robbins peppers every poem with song lyrics and advertising slogans and catchphrases in a crazed Joycean frappe that rewards pattern recognition in your brain sudden... morely and often. He also is pretty devoted to rhyme, which lends a kind of order to the whole even as it invites odd mash-ups of imagery for the sake of rhyme. I appreciate that Robbins is clearly irreverent if not downright profane, and a sense of fun hangs over everything, though the fun may at times feel a little juvenile. less

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