Poetry. CD included. The first book-length work by this South Carolinian/Southern Californian writer collects songs, essays, poetry, brief prose stories and documents from his unusual epistolary archive. Choate combines close attention to graphic detail--from page design to the evocativity of intentional misspelling--with a heightened focus on the influence of sonic texture over a words' migration between the page and the person. A wry but contagious humor underlies each piece. Includes "Laser Pointers Put the Demon in Demonstrate." Accompanying each book is a CD featuring musical renditions and other sonic performances of the work.

Language Makes Plastic of the Body

Literature & Fiction

Choate, Andrew

Poetry

Palm Press

"Andrew Choate's Learning is a dazzling testament to remaining forever a student in the for-profit racket known as life, particularly the university of hard knocks. Free of hierarchical notions about where or from whom one gets an education, Choate gleans knowledge from disparate sources including his 8th-grade girlfriend, the Viennese poet Friederike Mayröcker, and an issue of the New Yorker that he read to his father, who was struggling to recover from a violent attack. His father -- a mercurial lover of film and art -- at his most vulnerable provides the aching center to this text but from there it radiates out in beautifully penetrating waves, touching food, music, sex, and all kinds of dark matter. I'm tempted to buy copies of Learning and leave them in every train station and cafe I pass through, so that any wandering student can chance upon these stunning and wise lessons." -Margaret Wappler, author of Neon Green

Learning

Self-Help

Civil Coping Mechanisms

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