(Doug Nufer reads at Hedreen Gallery tonight, to celebrate the launch of a new show called Medium Medium: Language in the Age of Digital Reproduceability. The reading is free.)
You're either going to love tireless local word-explorer Doug Nufer's new book or you're going to hate it.
Lounge Acts (Insert Blanc Press, $11) is full of poems that consist of hundreds of fictional lounge-act band names. All these band names are made from the same construction: Blank and the Blanks (real life examples: King Khan and the Shrines, Fitz and the Tantrums). And the whole thing reeks of booze: Rob Roy and the Nightcaps, Butch Mills and the Rocks, Gar Nish and the Twists, Ray Near and the Shots. (Those examples are all from the very first page of the very first poem.)
Some of these names are puns (June Nip and the Pur), some of them are plays on famous names (Carl Isle and the Brandy), and some of them are just plain groan-inducing (Dinty Moore and the Stew)...
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