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Advanced Review Copies of *Rhode Island Notebook* by Gabriel Gudding are=20
now available. 436 pages. Publication Date: Nov. 23, 2007.
Perfect bound copies (in advance uncorrected galley) will be sent to=20
interested reviewers.
For a review copy, please query Martin Riker, [log in to unmask]
Or write to him at Dalkey Archive Press, University of Illinois, 605 E.=20
Springfield Ave MC-475, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
Jacket copy: =93Not since *On the Road* has a book been so thoroughly of=20
the road. *Rhode Island Notebook*--written in Gudding's Toyota during=20
twenty-six roundtrips between Illinois and Rhode Island=97-chronicles the=
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breakup of a marriage and the separation of a father and daughter. At=20
turns angry, comic, kitschy, and lyrical, this book-length poem is an=20
exorcism of violence both historical and personal. Ultimately intended=20
as a gift for the driver's daughter, the book also includes essays on=20
literary narcissism and dung; radio broadcasts; a surreal attack on=20
Nancy Reagan; much about Iraq; and the story of one man's friendship=20
with the Shenango River.=94
Blurbs on jacket:
=93Rhode Island Notebook is a modern/postmodern epic as a=20
poem-including-everything. An incredibly human/humane book at bottom, it=20
is also Gudding=92s road of excess, as Blake once had it, leading him (&=20
us) to the palace of wisdom.=94
-- Jerome Rothenberg
=93What might have been an experiment in conceptual writing has emerged=20
into an exhilaration that makes me glad I=92m still alive, in the midst o=
f=20
critique and highways. This is the first 21st-century classic.=94
=96- Alan Sondheim
Sections, poems, essays from this book were first published in New=20
American Writing, Jacket, Aufgabe, LIT, Action Yes, MiPoesias, Salt=20
Hill, VeRT, L=92Bourgeoizine, Mandorla:Nueva Escritura de Las Am=E9ricas,=
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Spoon River Poetry Review, Court Green, Backwards City, Counterpath=20
Online, and in the anthologies, Poetry 30: Thirtysomething American=20
Thirtysomething Poets, The Other Voices International Poetry Project,=20
and Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses.
A pr=E9cis of the book will be placed on my website in a week's time:=20
http://gabrielgudding.blogspot.com/
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