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POETRY
136 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.05)
Publication Date: November 2017
ISBN 9781931824675
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Nov 2017)
David Buuck’s newest collection, Noise in the Face of, is aesthetically strong, political poetry at its finest. Written in Oakland during the early days of the Occupy Oakland movement, through the Bay Area protests in the wake of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and many, many others, Noise marries fire and form, going beyond representational aesthetics to craft writing that aims to be the thing itself. Composed of nine poems, Noise is punctuated by “DISTANCE NOW CLOSED BETWEEN,” whose sections appear between the other poems. In “DISTANCE…,” Buuck explores the first raid on the Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland, appropriating language from leaked official emails. Buuck writes with immediacy, using language from the Internet that builds into righteous anger and exposes confusion that transforms into a sense of responsibility.
David Buuck is a writer who lives in Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics. Publications include SITE CITE CITY, An Army of Lovers, co-written with Juliana Spahr, and The Shunt (Palm Press. Writing and performance work is available via davidbuuck.com.