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By Victor Schwartzman, on 30-08-2008 15:37

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Your Pretty Typeface Is Going To Hell/$? Bradley Lastname/the press of the third mind/1301 n Dearborn Pkwy
#1007 Chicago, IL 60610
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Reviewed by:  Christopher Robin

First of all, I love the Iggy Pop reference in the title poem. Lastname uses inventive wordplay, DADA, nonsense and anagrams as his literary fodder. In ‘The Telemarketer Who Called While I Was Crucifying A Toad,” the poet is frustrated with the interruption so he does what any sane person would do: he puts the toad on the phone! Meanwhile, the telemarketer keeps talking about a free satellite dish, the toad responds: “rivet.” It’s funny! (This is not a poem, by the way, but a one act play, as this poet refuses to stultify his imagination!)

Other gems include: ‘Entering the Canon,’ where the poet receives a letter from a poetry committee informing him he is to be canonized. Guess what happens next? Lastname is also mildly obsessed with Devo, ‘Are I Not Man? I Are Devo!” This is not experimental poetry, no; this is more in the vein of Neal Wilgus or Suzy Poe or Bob Black. Yes, it’s damn funny, love it. Put it under your (surrealistic) pillow, have visions.
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