Kenji Siratori is, of course, one of the authors featured in The Edgier Waters, which was the recipient of a comprehensive and insightful review over at Mountain*7:
"And I guess that's the point then with this anthology: is it worth it? What's to be gained from reading three of the massively prolific Billy Childish's scrawled verses, the blank TV poems of Travis Jeppesen? Why is it 'edgy' and not just self-obsessed, sliding into a parody of itself? I think, finally it's a slave and a salute to the medium from whence it came. It's precisely prolific and blank, scattergun and angry; and precisely like some corner-of-the-world late-night TV station hosing out DIY pictures of council estates, gay bars, crack houses. And it stands and falls by those criteria, not those of the smug Booker judges or the Eggers crew; by design it's brief and aimed at short attention spans, jittery trigger-happy night dwellers." [permalink]
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