Continued concatenation & cacophony from the SlowHouse--this one subtitled Crying Out Loud. Contributors about evenly split between folks well-known (Robert Ashley, Dodie Belamy, Robert Kostelanetz, Denise Dee) and local friends (John Stickney, Jessica Grimm, Tom Beckett--famous in their own right). Moving away from some of the punkier (& funnier) work they've used in the past, towards more serious and (self?)-important. Despite that, the whole seems less coherent than the parts--an "eclection" (=eclectic selection, w/out the oxymoron). Beautiful cover--black with blind-stamped relief lettering.--luigi
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #2,
Contact the editor, luigi-bob drake, at Burning Press
Copyright Burning Press 1993, 1995.