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Publisher:
Sunny Press |
Release
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ISBN:
0-9720510-0-7 |
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Format
Reviewed: Paperback |
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Genre:
Nonfiction / Poetry / Literature |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Carisa Weeaks |
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MyShelf.com |
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And
Howls for us to Follow
A Book
of Poems
By Kenny Rose Butts
It
is safe to say that the attacks on 9/11 began the age of fanatical
politics. You’re either on one side or the other, and there’s
no hope of an in-between. Using his amazing talent of word-twisting
and beat-finding, Butts gives us a look inside what he considers
to be happening around us. With his collection of poems that skip
back and forth through the 1990s and 2000s, Butts has compiled a
massive load of intoxicating rhythms and language that makes even
an English major like me covet his talent. Going through the relationships
of man, animal, and war (which takes up nearly half the book itself),
Butts offers us a look at one view of the world and what is happening
around us now.
Instead
of going on and on about how much I will treasure this book for
as long as I’m able to comprehend it, I’d like to share
a tidbit of one of his many poems.
From “Screeeeech”:
“...Electromagnetic
bombardment, satellite saturation, egocentric infatuation
protected
speech is reigning down on me
protected
by the Telecommunications Act of 1996
the
FCC says, sí, sí, to the ATT’s
but
what about me
microwave
me, raise me up one degree Celsius or elsius!
It’s
sí, sí, to Globestar but not you and me...”
Butt’s
style reminds me of the way a rap is formulated with the constant
beat-driven rhyming that, if done well, is as powerful as a shock
to the brain. It is full of political views that are liberal in
ideology, but regardless of what I disagree or agree with, this
book is worth keeping in the treasured pile. His talent as a poet
and liberalist are definitely something to be respected and not
scoffed at.
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