Rouge State

By Rodney Koeneke

Poetry. Flarf. Rodney Koeneke was born in Omaha in 1968 and grew up in Tucson and Los Angeles, and has lived in or about San Francisco since 1986. His book of history, Empires of the Mind, which tells... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886350639
• ISBN13: 9781886350632
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Pavement Saw Press
• Length: 42 Pages
• Age Range: 12 years and up

Customer Reviews

A New State of Mind

"I have seen Grandma's secretions I have dressed in Auntie's pantyhose. I have discussed gender issues with the sager of the amoebae In backstreets watched by perfumed gendarmes." This book grabbed me with these lines and wouldn't let go. Showily vulgar, clunky in spots and almost always almost out of control, at least it never bored me. Is this what 9/11 did to poetry? Off to put ointment on the claw marks ...

Fantabulous!

This is a fun, rollicking read ... and deceptively so as the fun doesn't prevent pleasing bouts of lyric intensity. Really enjoyable.