Bücher von Kent Johnson

"Johnson's poems are like unchained pit bulls tossed into a school yard - somebody is going to get bit." - Ron SillimanOffensive to many, perhaps amusing to more, Kent Johnson's singular position in American poetry as its conscience, and its court jester, is unequalled. Perhaps deliberately. A sequel to Homage to the Last Avant-Garde.

Beneath a Single Moon is an extraordinary collection of the work of forty-five contemporary American poets—with over 250 poems and thirty essays on the influence of spiritual practice on the practice of poetry. Included are works by John Cage, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Jane Hirshfield, Andrew Schelling, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, and others.

Contains a variety of poems and prose: versions from the Greek, traduced to an extraordinary degree; anti-war poems, overflowing with rage; stink-bombs tossed in the direction of some famous poets, mostly meant in an ironic, joshing way.