Poetry. Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebritiesthe poems in PORTABLE ALTAMONT evince an irrepressible grasp of the zetigeistits mac... » 

Poetry. Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebritiesthe poems in PORTABLE ALTAMONT evince an irrepressible grasp of the zetigeistits machinations and manipulations its possibilities and peurility. Who otherthan artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined MargaretAtwood as a human beatbox Jessica Simpson applying for arts grants or theSwedish Chef reciting T.S. Eliot? Davis uses every literary form available torevel in and rearrange pop culture. Even the index turns into a short storyabout Luke Perrys descent into a shadow underworld of Parisian intellectualsand terrorists. PORTABLE ALTAMONT is that rare book that is both incendiary andcompulsively readable. Get to it before the lawyers do «