Poetry. Of his text, poet Christian Peet writes, "THE NINES might be read also as 5) unrelated questions parading as definite answers, 6) an act of resistance against narrative's stranglehold on meaning-making, via the delimiting of causes and effects, 7) a parody non-fiction's throat-clearing seriousness and eagerness to impart 'facts,' 8) an indictment of the privileging of the intellect over the senses-the hallmark of Civilization-and thus, ultimately...9) an indictment of the very idea of Civilization, that ecocidal Moloch not one fang less terrible for being a complete sham." In the THE NINES Peet creates a framework of intertextuality with an incredibly diverse range of works-ranging from Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time to Curtis Marlow's Breakdancing, Anne Waldman' and Marilyn Webb's Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute to Kenneth Clark's Landscape into Art-creating a book of poems as energetic and iconoclastic as its sources.

The Nines

Literature & Fiction

Peet, Christian

Poetry

Palm Press

"Big American Trip seeks to recall America's erased history, deridable and otherwise.... The postcards are at once addressed to no one and everyone; it does not matter who reads them, but everyone will. Buckle up for Christian Peet's worthwhile Big American Trip. --Verse Magazine "... addresses all of our insecurities as artists, as lovers, and as citizens who lack the ability to understand one another, regardless of which language we speak. Peet allows us to look closely at our limits as humans and as Americans in a world filled seemingly with so many opportunities to connect. --The Rumpus "...blistering postcards dashed off by a nervy, distraught human being of indeterminate gender who is both losing and finding him/herself in and across a terrifying pre-Obama America. Stamp this one with approval." --REBECCA BROWN, author of American Romances, The Last Time I Saw You, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, Gifts of the Body, The End of Youth, The Dogs, Annie Oakley's Girl, and The Terrible Girls, among others. "The author of these postcards has transcribed this alien's heart. Peet drives through the US landscape (circa early 21st century), offers us the hijacked language of a nation, and through this text asks: and what words have been left for you to use, honestly?" --ELENA GEORGIOU, author of mercymercy me and Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants "Christian Peet rejects the idyllic dream of a post-national freedom, instead going back to those two archaic, fundamental tools of American nation building--the highway system and the postcard--not to find an imagined national community but to reveal the strangeness, violence and noise that results from the U.S. clashing with other cultures, languages and nations, and--just as importantly--clashing with itself." --JOHANNES GÖRANSSON, author of Dear Ra, Pilot, and A New Quarantine Will Take My Place "We are invited to trespass our own borders that we might hear (and learn to speak) radical loss. A whole new spin on the classic postcard message: "wish you were here," Big American Trip is a remarkable, necessary book, and a wonderful achievement." --SELAH SATERSTROM, author of The Pink Institution and The Meat and Spirit Plan

Big American Trip

United States

Shearsman Books

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