Zapped: Two Novellas : How to Make Love to a Foot/Asbestos : A Book for Lepers
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A world-acclaimed poet presents two new age novels back to back: “Asbestos: A Book for Lepers” and “How to Make Love to a Foot”. Both novellas are parodies of the gestalt psychology fad of the sixties and the pop culture of the era. This is a wonderfully experimental text…. More >>
Zapped: Two Novellas : How to Make Love to a Foot/Asbestos : A Book for Lepers
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ZAPPED is a phenomenally successful exercise in experimental text. Effectively a comic book without pictures, Peters’ masterful use of imagery and language conveys images with the clarity and audacity of popular lowbrow artists Robert Crumb and Robert Williams. Highly influenced by the underground comics of Crumb’s generation, Peters – like Crumb – revels in such concepts as scatology, sexuality, blasphemy, and vulgarity; also like Crumb, though, he does so with such honesty and a keenly critical eye that he in fact brings dignity to the page. He cuts through the limpness and hollowness of the American zeitgeist as swiftly and violently as Williams Burroughs…
This is not conventional prose… But well worth the effort! Peters should be regarded as highly as Burroughs, Gysin, etc. but is perhaps even too esoteric for them…
January 15, 2010 4:34 am | #1Rating: 5 / 5