tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962666277987804612011-07-07T20:59:43.587-07:00MNnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296266627798780461.post-47715392309464548832008-10-20T10:26:00.000-07:002009-09-30T12:46:12.485-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_ZhceFvylk/SPy_feNbohI/AAAAAAAAAFk/7g-SSR8nNp0/s1600-h/ReactionaryFront.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259289012268147218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_ZhceFvylk/SPy_feNbohI/AAAAAAAAAFk/7g-SSR8nNp0/s200/ReactionaryFront.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div>olywa press is pleased to announce<br /><br />the publication of its debut chapbook<br /><br /><br />Laura Jaramillo’s <em>The Reactionary Poems</em><br /><br />$8 (includes shipping), 25 pages, stapled and glued<br />off-white guts, letterpressed cover<br /></div><div>SOLD OUT! THANKS!<br /><br />In <em>The Reactionary Poems</em>, Laura Jaramillo zeroes in on the minutiae dotting the landscape of contemporary Queens and finds herself feeling, well, a little aggro. Given that it’s not quite morning in America, what might her dystopian nonprofit workplace have in store for her now? Who knows. But in response to the office, the ad copy, the mortgages for all credit scenarios, the aspirations to an “authentic but stylized” solitude, Jaramillo opts not for innovative poetry’s satirization-through-emulation but rather to observe, to say, to react. What results is a book that takes the Maximus that is Jaramillo’s Benjamin-steeped long poem <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">B</span> and shrinks it into an Objectivist-inflected Minimus counterpart that is small so that her “anger / doesn’t lose its / scale.”<br /><br />From the book:<br /><br />TECHNOLOGY PLUS THE ABSENCE OF LOVE<br /><br />The morass, aging super-<br />models, mid-90’s danceable<br />soft rap and wading<br />through this—<br />Who’ll be the dirty<br />agonist in the future face<br />an oval Buddha to escape<br />the rain in a corporate<br />arcade<br /><br /><br />Laura Jaramillo is a poet from the borough of limitless opportunity, Queens. She holds a BA from Bard College and a MA in Creative Writing from Temple University. Her poems have appeared in <em>Pocket Myths: The Odyssey</em>, <em>P-QUEUE</em>, <em>Cross-Connect</em>, <em>Tribilingual</em>, <em>The Bard Papers</em>, and <em>For Godot</em>.<br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br />Click <a href="http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html#6169198628902911562#6169198628902911562">here</a> for a review by Ryan Eckes at PhillySound (scroll down to Dec. 5). </div><div> </div><div>Click <a href="http://slantedshanty.blogspot.com/">here</a> for a review by Joe Massey (scroll down to July 30, 2009).<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D_ZhceFvylk/SPy_q-gk_mI/AAAAAAAAAFs/2cON1-h9aC8/s1600-h/ReactionaryBack.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259289209916948066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D_ZhceFvylk/SPy_q-gk_mI/AAAAAAAAAFs/2cON1-h9aC8/s200/ReactionaryBack.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/296266627798780461-4771539230946454883?l=olywapress.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MNnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296266627798780461.post-7587672481820091662008-06-23T00:30:00.000-07:002008-06-23T00:31:31.414-07:00Welcome. More soon.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/296266627798780461-758767248182009166?l=olywapress.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MNnoreply@blogger.com0