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John M. Bennett:
REVERSION: PILES OF THAT


Luna Bisonte
137 Leland Ave.
Columbus, OH, 43214


252 pp., $30. 00

Gahhhhh! Well over 400 poems by the renowned spitter, teeming with Bennettisms like: "Where the why whys! Where the pause lie!" from "Why Whines"; and "So I langoured, breathed a wall" from "A Glance Back Cast." Results a mutter-to-utter maxitrosity by a poet who more and more seems to be the Jackson Pollock of contemporary poetry--because of his disorienting originality; crudity; size and plain old self-publishing Americanness.--Bob Grumman


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This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #5,
Copyright Burning Press 1994, 1996.

Contact the editor, luigi-bob drake, at Burning Press