the “unblack” cover
“i is Another” by Ray Dunkle
Vox Anon’s third collection of poetry, “Super Cutey”, deals primarily with a concept that occupied Eliot’s mind when he wrote the “Waste Land”; not only the observation that the world is in ruins but also that these ruins should be used to reconstruct specific aspects of the civilisation. Whereas Eliot put forth a rather ambitious full-scale reconstruction in terms of poetry Vox Anon seems to be either a bit more pessimistic in this task or haunted by the realisation that this world can be restored only partially. These cultural ruins encompass not only the Classics they also reach to the regions of Pop Art and Post-Modernism. It is not irrelevant that one of the questions raised in this book is “who is speaking?” The poems interchange the voice of the poet with the voice of a persona and the voice of a voice of a voice… These are echoes, scattered reflections of the world that cannot force its own density and continuity but has enough strength to impose its demands to the poet and to Rimbeaudean “I is another”.
One of the characteristic images that appear with some frequency is that of a unicorn. Vox Anon is fascinated with the possibility of the existence of a being if it is described with ink. Agreed description is not existence or a factual truth but in any case it is a poetical truth which is by far stronger. This is the reason why dead persons such as Kierkegaard or Artaud appear also in the pages. Vox Anon wants to make sure that they are alive, if only for a moment and in the narrow space a poem allows.
Maybe the key idea of the whole collection is love. The poet tries to establish a romantic concept of love in a world that finds even cynicism to be a luxury. In other words, in a world where pettiness wins there’s the public’s demand for realism pushed to its boundaries. Vox Anon sternly rejects such a notion;
“i have sacrificed my name
to the ocean of stars
to sand in my eyes
i became one with myself”
(“Die Before You Die”)
Not accidentally Rumi is mentioned in this poem as a mantra. This partial reconstruction of the world demands a certain level of idealisation, which will be the building material. For the poet these materials are mainly the rumours and the images of the past.
This is a rich, adventurous take of a free, super-imaginative mind, left pondering life and its many stripes and colours, directions without barriers and restrains, asking of it what is possible. Foremostly, this is an authentic writing. A stream of consciousness, an automatic writing of the submerged objects within psyche -call it what you will but it won’t be one thing: boring.
Ray Dunkle
SuCu coming July 12, 2012
direct link for sale @ lulu
then amazon coming soon after
Poems of Naïveté & Inexperience or Super Cutey
Binding: Perfect
Interior: Black Ink
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Pages: 174 pages
Poems: 74 poems
Price: $12.99
Publisher: lulu/Amazon
Author: Vox Anon
Title: Super Cutey
Release: 07/12/12
Rated: Unfit to Read OR tEEn/M
Target Audience: Small Animals & Medieval Illiterati
Banned, Burned, Seized, & Censored: Burn/Learn to keep warm
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Poems of Naïveté & Inexperience…
Vox Anon Presents: “Super Cutey” 3rd
in The Hard Candy Trilogy
1.Pretty Scary
2.Kissy Killy
3.Super Cutey
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SUPER CUTEY 8y Vox Anon
1. Godzillaless
2. Lower Case G
3. Marrowless & Wineless
4. X-Ray Harryhausen
5. To End All Poems
6. Of Dead Feathers
7. My Joy
8. G-d is Not a Dj
9. Antiblasphemy Laws
10. No Sympathy for the Devil
11. The Butcher’s Daughter
12. Little Black Dress
13. Self Taught
14. Two Headed Phoenix
15. Etymology of Apple
16. Kinder-Fresser
17. Her Daddy Longlegs
18. Like a Suicide
19. Are We Still Married
20. Love from the Asylum
21. Avant Kierkegaard
22. My Wrists Smile
23. Whipped Clean i
24. Queen of Pinups
25. Pearl Diving Suit
26. Lipstick Fail
27. Umbilical Cored
28. My Name is My Voice
29. The Nosebleed Shaman
30. The Pygmalion Roar
31. First Person Shooter
32. In Vitro Ex Vivo
33. Only Nine Times
34. Celeb Nude Pics
35. Jealous Lovers We
36. Volitional Reflorations
37. If i Was Your Girlfriend
38. Hot Pink Muscle Car
39. Meat Dress
40. Hollywood Sighs
41. Fear of Dolls
42. Skin Tight Soul
43. Sugar Spice Everything Nice
44. Nina Simone 3 a.m.
45. Germinal Velocity
46. Yoni Eye/Oni Mask
47. Miss Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
48. Tiger Beat
49. Hospital Gown
50. Fur Musk Til Dew
51. Die Before You Die
52. Bubblegum Pop
53. Free Kittens
54. Pink is the New
55. Four Horsemen Cocktail
56. Slugs Snails Puppy Dog Tails
57. Gothic Tea Cup
58. Lollipops & Lobotomies
59. Gesamtkunstwerk
60. The Safest Place
61. Danielle Steel Hardcover
62. Magnetismus Animalis
63. Mailer Daemon Possession
64. Drank the Kool Aid
65. Unkissable Lips
66. The Hells have “I”s
67. Love at Last Sight
68. Sugar Walls
69. Rumi on Fire
70. Pregnancy Test
71. Woman is Not a Flower
72. Kill the Unicorn
73. Super Cutey
74. Alien Hymn
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