Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems

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A daring new collection of poetry from Alessandro Porco. Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic lan. A poetry that gleefully articulates the possibilities of a 21st century balls-deep masculinity, Porco's new collection begins with its most important work, 'Augustine in Carthage,' a trans-historical re-imagining of Book III of St. Augustine's Confessions, which includes (among other things) philosophising strippers, Tampico bombers, rabbit holes, coprology, and comic-book heroism.

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"Pun-mad, filled with gratuitous and funny allusions to low and high culture." --"Winnipeg Free Press"
"An ear for the musicality of language. . . . [Porco] loves to muck around in the wide world of literature, ideas, and to implicitly challenge poetic conventions . . . a skillful poet at marshalling the cacophony of our times." --"Prairie Fire"
"With a delectable and saucy style, Porco does not fail to astonish by performing a tense merger between items of high scholarly reference and pop culture. . . . Porco's work is highly deserving of all the acclaim it receives." --"Scene Magazine"

Author Bio

Alessandro Porco is a poet, critic, and scholar. Currently at the State University of New York-Buffalo, he is working toward a dissertation on the subject of hip-hop poetics. His controversial first book of poetry is the "Jill Kelly Poems." He lives in Buffalo, New York.