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Title: Late Capitalist Sublime by Ryan Kamstra, Paul Vermeersch ISBN: 1-894663-19-5 Publisher: Insomniac Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: New voice in the tradition of the Beats
Comment: Don't be mislead by the size of the book; this slender volume is heavy with words, dense with images. These poems by rYAN kAMSTRA evoke the poetry the Beats might have written, if Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg had lived in the even more screwed-up era of zombie-pocked skyscrapers, rapacious office machines and "dark nuclear morning" that is this, our new century. Don't look for precious rhymes or easy sentiment: kAMSTRA can be obscure; he rants; he twists the most commonplace of scenes into devastation by flesh-eating butterflies. He juxtaposes words and creates beauty--"Because gravity is in love with your shadow & the sky can't hold on to your hair..." He can be blatant--portraying a runaway humankind as pigs who "enjoy the finer things" and "shoot other pigs for hoarding," and pitting the excesses of the capitalist world against "two sparrows/a nest of weeds/& a tiny dry river." He can be wryly humorous; he can be terribly sad. But what he is NOT, is boring, neutral or easy to ignore.

Susan O'Neill, author: Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Viet Nam

Rating: 5
Summary: lATE cAPITALIST sUBLIME
Comment: This volume of poetry by Ryan Kamstra is at once tender/tough, political/personal, musical/cacophanous, real/fantastical. His poems teach us something about the way we see ourselves, our world, and eachother. He is a poet of the first order. Highly recommended.