Make Loneliness by J. Reuben Appelman


Make Loneliness
Title : Make Loneliness
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ISBN : 0979617707
ISBN-10 : 9780979617706
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 84
Publication : First published January 1, 2008

Poetry. From the Graduate Writing Program at Otis College of Art and Design comes MAKE LONELINESS, a collection of new poetry by poet and screenwriter J. Reuben Appelman. Poems siphoned through a Wasteland lens juxtaposing violence, politically driven sex in public, the unrequited urge toward proper parenting, and an often abysmal undertow of post-televised American pop "On Judge Joe Brown today, there was a man who wanted his bamboo steamer back. He was considered the plaintiff, and his girlfriend was counter-suing for lack of affection in the amount of $6,000. Once I dyed my hair to match my computer. Is this the same? Somebody threw a key party and everyone went home with a tumor and a vehicle. My favorite time of year became those weeks when my roots were growing in. I was always happy, and on the verge of something awful. This after I drew her face on an orange, and cut it in half. My father as X under pending. He told me, Go into the universe and make loneliness, Son, make more loneliness."

Make Loneliness Reviews

  • Patty

    it's like if you put gertrude stein and georges bataille in a cruet and shook them up, then sprinkled them on paper instead of lettuce and seasoned them with bleakness instead of black pepper. not my kind of salad.

  • Ben Loory

    my brain is too small for poetry; it doesn't know what's happening. but i liked the sentences in this a lot. they were very pretty.

    I hope that in heaven there's a word for something like heaven, that it doesn't end there. I can't bear to think of my brother as having nowhere left to go, as being written somehow.

    maybe if i read it again my brain will abruptly catch on. and then i'll suddenly start talkin' poetry all the time. like someone very irritating.

    anyway, thanks patrick. this book is autographed-- do you know mr. appelman?

  • Mathias Harding

    I fished this copy out of my closet and re-read it. It had been years since I'd looked at it. Appelman is a fantastic poet, dipping bitter fruit in humor and colorful prose.