POEM AT THE GOING RATE
by RM Haines
This collection is both an homage to the punk band the Minutemen and a poetic essay on art, eternity, and capitalism. Written in late summer of 2023, the voice inhabits a kind of collective personality, blending Minutemen lyrics and lore, the poet’s own fascinations, and various psychic scraps found along the way. The style is both aphoristic and propulsive, creating a montage of careening, end-stopped lines, each one eager to break into the next. Whether you know the band’s music or not, these poems are for you: they are here to collide against impediments and amplify the ecstatic noise of life. (16 pp., released on 3.18.24)
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RM Haines runs Dead Mall Press, and you can read more about him here.