Big American Trip

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ISBN-10:

1848610157

ISBN-13:

9781848610156

Author(s): Peet, Christian
Edition: Illustrated
Released: Mar 15, 2009
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Format: Paperback, 100 pages

Description:

"Big American Trip seeks to recall America's erased history, deridable and otherwise.... The postcards are at once addressed to no one and everyone; it does not matter who reads them, but everyone will. Buckle up for Christian Peet's worthwhile Big American Trip.
--Verse Magazine

"... addresses all of our insecurities as artists, as lovers, and as citizens who lack the ability to understand one another, regardless of which language we speak. Peet allows us to look closely at our limits as humans and as Americans in a world filled seemingly with so many opportunities to connect.
--The Rumpus

"...blistering postcards dashed off by a nervy, distraught human being of indeterminate gender who is both losing and finding him/herself in and across a terrifying pre-Obama America. Stamp this one with approval."
--REBECCA BROWN, author of American Romances, The Last Time I Saw You, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, Gifts of the Body, The End of Youth, The Dogs, Annie Oakley's Girl, and The Terrible Girls, among others.

"The author of these postcards has transcribed this alien's heart. Peet drives through the US landscape (circa early 21st century), offers us the hijacked language of a nation, and through this text asks: and what words have been left for you to use, honestly?"
--ELENA GEORGIOU, author of mercymercy me and Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants

"Christian Peet rejects the idyllic dream of a post-national freedom, instead going back to those two archaic, fundamental tools of American nation building--the highway system and the postcard--not to find an imagined national community but to reveal the strangeness, violence and noise that results from the U.S. clashing with other cultures, languages and nations, and--just as importantly--clashing with itself."
--JOHANNES GÖRANSSON, author of Dear Ra, Pilot, and A New Quarantine Will Take My Place

"We are invited to trespass our own borders that we might hear (and learn to speak) radical loss. A whole new spin on the classic postcard message: "wish you were here," Big American Trip is a remarkable, necessary book, and a wonderful achievement."
--SELAH SATERSTROM, author of The Pink Institution and The Meat and Spirit Plan

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