By Michael Robbins
A moment assortment from a poet of 'sheer pleasure and dizzy command' - The manhattan Times)
Upon its e-book in 2012, Alien vs. Predator, the debut assortment by way of Michael Robbins, turned one of many most well-liked and so much celebrated works of poetry within the nation, profitable popularity of its startling freshness and originality, and top critics to assert that it used to be the main most probably ebook in years to open up poetry to a brand new readership.
Robbins's poems are unusual, extraordinary, wild, and irrationally exuberant, mashing up low and high tradition with 'a sky-blue originality of utterance' (The long island Times). The thirty-six new poems in The moment intercourse carry over the song, angle, hilarity, and vulgarity of Alien vs. Predator, whereas additionally operating deeper autobiographical and political veins.
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