The Future Is Happy
by Sarah Sarai
"
How
often we hear it: 'No ideas but in things.' But Sarai throws
pie in the face of such doctrine, and a tasty pie it is. Here, abstractions
such as connection, morality and 'sloppy forgiveness' form
the crust of her work. But the filling, juicy with the polymorphous perversity
of a living breathing world, teems with a compote of voices, textures,
colors. Socrates, James Brown, Anna Karenina are tossed together with
bebop, chili peppers and '100 billion neurons nipping maybe 268
mph.' So much to chew on! The poet serves it all with an uncommon
heart and broad-ranging intellect. The result is writing which is naked,
urgent, frisky and sublime."
—Nina Corwin (Conversations with Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints; Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art by Women-editor; Fifth Wednesday Journal-poetry editor)
"Sarah Sarai’s poetry is hot-wired and hip-swivel all the way up the spine! Emily Dickinson is Jewish and Moses breaks tablets for stellar sex. She’s retained the best of modernism (especially that syncopated variable foot Charlie Parker bop in the word-love) and moved onto new red earth for her own vision. Eat this book! It’s terrific."
—Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire; Blues for Unemployed Secret Police; Keep Your Head Down - a memoir)
The Future Is Happy by Sarah Sarai
Paper: $16.00
ISBN: 9781935402350
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