<p>Poetry. "To read CHOMP AWAY is to take a crash course on the notion of dread as primal poetic value, with a consciousness filter bent towards humor. Every poem contains transparent seams managing a trophy wall of tortured, ordinary, far-out-to-far-in syntaxes that Gardner deftly parodies, ultimately generating wild, empathetic voice-structures—the longer poem "Twilight System Joy Mechanics" being an especially masterful example of this—aimed at unbridled power and its supporting cast of popular deflections"—Anselm Berrigan.</p>

Chomp Away

Literature & Fiction

Gardner, Drew

Poetry

Combo Books

<p>Poetry. The author of "Chicks Dig War" brings you his latest selection of hits featuring "All the World Loves a Big Gleaming Jelly," "I Hate Both Time and Space," and "Rudolph the Transcendent Minimalist White Supremacist Ritual Child Abuser." Expressive and unpredictable, Drew Gardner's DEFENDER is a Zen/Frankfurt School romp through the thoroughgoing flog, weird because weird is the only way to get anywhere near the actual situation we inhabit. DEFENDER's dissent is unfortunately not absurdist, which is of course absurd-- "It is such a beautiful day with dappled sunlight -- why can't it occur to me to do anything but kill ghouls?"</p>

Defender

Edge Books

Poetry. As a poet and a musician, New York resident Drew Gardner is admirably obsessed with "the phrase." Separating each line in SUGAR PILL with regular units of blank space, Gardner's first book turns every line into a stanza unto itself, clearly intent upon establishing a rhythm and sequencing wholly unique to itself. Outside of its fascinating form, this collection intimately examines the consequences of the scientific and corporate leviathan, and its eerie moral order: "aren't you supposed to be out killing things?//like lemmings running up a cliff//missile silos implode in North Dakota//copping the absence."

Sugar Pill

Krupskaya

Poetry. Flarf. "PETROLEUM HAT is natural language for a country at war. Unlike the old model of protest poetry, Drew Gardner isn't interested in earnest appeals to reason and compassion. He'll match the political spectacle absurdity for absurdity--and in the case of the funny and chilling `Chicks Dig War,' I'm struck by how thoroughly he understands the logic of our times. Lazy Darwinian accounts of ourselves as celebrated in the New York Times Science and Business sections are satirized in tones borrowed and blended from sitcoms and textbooks"--Ange Mlinko.

Petroleum Hat

Roof Books

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Chomp Away

Defender

Sugar Pill

Petroleum Hat