The Available World

by Ander Monson

" Ander Monson's] poems celebrate defiant excess. In this land of scarcity, right-living involves using up what you have, where you have it; otherwise someone might wreck, steal, or use it and you might not get any. A carpe diem for obscure, doomed youth."--Stephen Burt

Inspired by the cult Japanese video game Katamari Damacy, these poems increase in size and momentum, rolling more and more into their orbits as they go. Formally inventive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932511830
• ISBN13: 9781932511833
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"