On Big Confetti by Brendan Lorber

"In 1901, one determined person went over Niagara Falls in a barrel--but it took 103 years and two people to develop a project that could generate the same tumultuous thrill without the certainty of catastrophic injury. Captured in this barrel is daily existence itself converted to insistent, accelerating, high-energy projectile verse, the optimistic sense of having all the time in the world to have the time of your life, capped with guarantees of increase & amplification ahead. To hell with anyone who stands between us & the world as revealed in Shafer Hall & Shanna Compton's adventures through the firewall, their confetti-strewn collaborative celebration. Their ticker tape parade of conceptual bravado begins with ironically nostalgic Texan adolescence, a muscular Americana cutting totemic animals down to high school mascot size & ends with the means to resist taboos--taboos capriciously imposed in the name of control. They flirt with things they're not supposed to, create conditions of restraint in frenetic fields, thumb their noses at lineage & make strange even received notions pop-iconography. Enter a world of Kool on the Ganges, of off-balance additions to the expected, of a constant matter-of-fact exuberance. A new map of America that recognizes the trouble with living in a nation built on ephemera is an exciting trouble, the kind that keeps you going on your nerve. Behind Big Confetti's sense of winking playfulness in a strange land is the intimate complicity of two minds working in concert. It's less a meeting of the minds than heads bumping hard enough to see stars in a culturally turbulent but altogether rollicking maelstrom. The hard part is choosing which star to wish on."



Wow! I'm as pink as my template.