The Nines

Poetry. Of his text, poet Christian Peet writes, "THE NINES might be read also as 5) unrelated questions parading as definite answers, 6) an act of resistance against narrative's stranglehold on meaning-making, via the delimiting of causes and effects, 7) a parody non-fiction's throat-clearing seriousness and eagerness to impart 'facts,' 8) an indictment of the privileging of the intellect over the senses-the hallmark of Civilization-and thus, ultimately...9) an indictment of the very idea of Civilization, that ecocidal Moloch not one fang less terrible for being a complete sham." In the THE NINES Peet creates a framework of intertextuality with an incredibly diverse range of works-ranging from Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time to Curtis Marlow's Breakdancing, Anne Waldman' and Marilyn Webb's Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute to Kenneth Clark's Landscape into Art-creating a book of poems as energetic and iconoclastic as its sources.