Thus Spake the Corpse: 1988-1998: Volume 1 Poetry & Essays

by Andrei Codrescu

Book Overview

Andrei Codrescu's infamous anti-literary magazine Exquisite Corpse became a prime site of engaged dialogue in the stormy decade of its existence. Taking its name from Surrealism, the Corpse became the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574231006
• ISBN13: 9781574231007
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 417 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wicked fun reading

I miss the now-defunct "Exquisite Corpse," the most original and maybe the best American literary magazine of the 1990s. This greatest hits collection from the Corpse is a pleasure to read. Until I discovered the Corpse, I thought American literature had become the moribound property of academics and the Iowa Writers Finishing School. These essays and poems are wicked fun and thought-provoking.By the way, the Exquisite Corpse has now become a cyber-publication.

The wittiest, brightest writing of the last decade.

I generally avoid poetry and literary essays, but a friend passed this along to me--and thank heavens she did. If you despair that dead academic writing and predictable journalistic writing represents the best that's out there, despair no more and buy a copy of this witty & bright anthology. Great fun & deeply thought-provoking.