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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN num: 9781933633480
ISBN number: 1933633484
Label: Melville House
Manufacturer: Melville House
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 101
Printing Date: May 15, 2008
Publishing house: Melville House
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'A revolutionary.'-The Stranger
'Stimulating and exciting.'-The San Francisco Bay Guardian
'Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass-from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious.'-Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You
Tao Lin-author of the underground sensation Eeeee Eee Eeee-continues his deadpan existential-slapstick style with poems featuring titles such as: 'I will learn to love a person and then I will teach you and then we will know' and 'hamsters are heads with little characteristics on the head, part one.'
It is, in short, a book of poetry in which the author attempts in a calm, sympathetic, and at times sarcastic tone, to explain to himself the possible origins and cures of anger, worry, frustration, obsession, and confusion-while concurrently experiencing those things.
Tao Lin is the poetry editor for 3 a.m. magazine, and proprietor of the blog Reader of Depressing Books. His stories and poems have appeared in Mississippi Review, Cincinnati Review, Other Voices, Punk Planet, and many other magazines. Lin, author of the novel Eeeee Eee Eeee and the short story collection Bed, was born in 1983.
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The poetry in this book completely escapes me. I realize that not everyone "gets" different styles of poetry (or prose for that matter). That said, Lin's style of communicating seems so disjointed, tangential, and arbitrary that his work appears to me as indecipherable on nearly every page. The impression I took away from this book is that Lin's writings (and possibly Lin himself) are just plain *weird.*
I purchased this book to use as an add-on to a course I was teaching on CBT. I had hoped to find a poem or two to share with my class; I was quite disappointed, to say the least. Before you buy this book, go to Lin's blog (reader of depressing books) to check him out a bit. I wish I had before buying this travesty of literature.
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i think a lot about this book and tao lin's other books
the very first time i read this i was so excited i read it all in one sitting
it is hard for me normally to read more than three poems in one sitting
i normally stand up and do something else
there are a lot of poems that have multiple parts to it like in the books BAD BAD by chelsey minnis or ANGLE OF YAW by ben lerner but different because of the hampsters and sadness and other things
the poem 'are you okay?' made me so sad that i had to stop reading and lie down on the couch and think for a minute
my friend asked me if this book is funny like his other book of poety and i said 'no, no it is never funny. i didn't laugh once while reading it' and i did not realize that was true until i said it even though i lied a little
some parts are actually very funny, but not funny in a way that makes me laugh out loud, but just makes me smile and feel 'consoled'
i just opened the book and looked at 'ugly fish poem, part one' and read this sentence: "and i have swum fast; any speed that exists i have swum at that speed"
that makes me laugh i don't know why
this book made me sad a lot and i don't think i will look at it as much as 'you are a little bit happier than i am' but that is okay, because that book made me excited about life and stuff in ways that few things ever have, i don't know
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I felt sad and lonely before I read this book. After I read the last page, I felt happy. This book effectively helps me overcome feelings of sadness, despair, loneliness, alienation, and boredom. I think this book will be helpful to many people.
Good job, Tao.
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2RHOYXDJEY8K7 This is a Tao Lin approved video with gmail chat 'dings' from Tao himself.
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