Jonny Slick
FILTHOMATIC
ISBN 10: 1-933132-42-6
ISBN 13: 978-1-933132-42-6
Paper, 60 pp., 5.5x8
$12
“Most of the vernacular poetry today, and it’s a huge movement that’s been largely unexplored, is written by people who have hardly read any—maybe they discovered Charles Bukowski, maybe me. And they’re usually from “out there,” where a New Yorker wouldn’t dream of living. Jonny Slick is clearly an Outsider Poet, yet not from some unlettered, rural, or folksy background. One usually thinks of Outsider Art as primitive, crude in its originality, like Grandma Moses with her embroidery-hoop scenes, not that of a highly literate outsider like Jonny Slick, who is aware of possibilities of poetry that Wallace Stevens never dreamed of–or perhaps Stevens never dared put his dreams into his poetry in all their smutty juiciness.” —from the preface by Edward Field
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