Jules Boykoff

Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge Jules Boykoff

Poetry. I've heard it said that poetry that uses the phrasal fragment can't have a coherent and strident politics. I've never believed it. But if for some reason you have, read ONCE UPON A NEOLIBERAL ROCKET BADGE and be shown the way. This collectuon makes the lyric and socialist realist documentary look helpless in the face of neoliberalism. If there is, as many want to argue now, a poetry of globalization, Jules Boykoff is writing it and those looking for what poetry might look like post-Seattle will find this necessary reading-Juliana Spahr. Boykoff unleashes a ribald criticality as a bald come on to liberation. Liberation shimmies. New stuff shakes out. Here's a poetic practice boldly moving beyond current centrist expreimental poetries and their obsession with betweening and thereining. Bump all that! Give us the shake out. Give us a hand-Rodrigo Toscano.