Mopes / Kenneth Reveiz.

First edition.

Hudson, NY : Fence Books, [2022]

©2022

83 pages : 1 color illustration ; 26 cm

BEIN Zac R321 M79 2022 : Number line on title page verso indicates second printing: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. Paperbound.

Fence Modern Poets Series Prize, 2022

"With unrelenting indignation and remarkable tenderness, Kenneth Reveiz gives voice to the razing of respectability while mending the fissures of a body's abjection in the totalizing ether of whiteness. In its three-act structure, MOPES directs a series of scene-changes that oscillate abruptly in mood and matter-a riotous counterethnographic anti-monument; a gruesome video game killing spree reflecting yet another day in the United States; performances of laughter and boredom as a cover for affliction; and as many-sided attributions of sex as to queer "class hatred under the moonlight." Reveiz punctuates with lol's and heart-signs, or with mimicries of Elizabethan English, to throttle the artifice of establishment value. In strains at once breakneck, salacious, mordant, and loudly opposed, Reveiz seeks a poetry tantamount to the "most fucking amazing fully distanceless thing"-that is, unapologetic and adequate to the task of the present. -roberto tejada, author of still nowhere in an empty vastness: history & metaphor"-- Provided by publisher.

Mopes : a book of poems in three acts

English

April 25, 2023

United States New York (State) New York.