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Poetry | $10 ($7 direct from UDP)
Hand-bound. 20 pp, 4.5 x 7 in.
Distribution: Direct-only
A chapbook-length poem that sardonically examines a modern society caught in the grip of the military industry complex, the war on terrorism, consumer culture, and Toby Keith.
from Get the Fuck Back into that Burning Plane:
Sir! Ma’am! For the safety and security
of you and your family,
I need you to get the fuck
back into that burning plane.
For the 245 whites of Shanksville, PA,
bombed from eight weeks in the future,
recovered into historical memory
from the pixel debris connecting
the monitor to the hardpoint,
please, get the fuck
back into that burning plane.
A finger prodding you through an array
of channels and devices:
lab, factory, prison, school.
Into the time-period you go,
fluctuating like a canister,
handed yourself by the bursar
and the ombudsperson
like a glass of gravitas.
You lick the bottom of the glass;
there is candy there.
You lick the wreckage of racialized vespers;
there is a nation here.
We are living in a serialized world,
and I am the Aleph and the Omega Manifold.
I am there at helpdesk, on holiday in Apartheid Villages.
Wherever information processing continues
indefinitely along one world-line gamma
to the future c-boundary of the universe,
I, cable news, am there, bringing you the federal
double-wide prank of dematerialized corporate America,
but only if you get on the plane.
Get back on the plane, now.
The plane, madam, please, the plane,
get yourself the fuck back to it.
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03.22.09 | Wild Horses of Fire reviews Lawrence Giffin’s Get the Fuck Back Into that Burning Plane
Lawrence Giffin's poems have appeared in 6×6, Cannot Exist, Glitter Pony, Invisible Ear, Model Homes, and Skein. As a member of the publishing collective Lil' Norton, Lawrence Giffin is the series editor of the journal The Physical Poets Home Library. He is the author of an essay, rightly deemed "fascinating (if problematic)" by Ron Silliman, on Rod Smith's poem, "The Good House;" he also compiles an ongoing work of social philosophy composed of entries copied and pasted from newspaper comment streams; entitled Comment Is Free, the first two volumes can be purchased from Lulu.com at cost. A kind of historical novel, Aa, coauthored with Fernando Diaz, is forthcoming from Patrick Lovelace Editions.
