Mechanical Bull
(By Rennie Ament)
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“If, as Rennie Ament says in a poem in her new book MECHANICAL BULL, ‘poems are a bed of nails,’ then taking in this book results in a full body experience. At first, marvelous sounds drive its sense and the book’s all delight and discovery of one poet’s urge to make their own joyful noise. Ament’s noise is loud and clear and new and often delirious. And then something else settles into the mix in the guise of it taking ‘too long to sleep,’ and noticing we’re as berserk as bees. Ament’s book is powerful with dangers lurking all through it, with not a clue to lull us into believing we just might not be this book’s next happy victim.” —Dara Barrois/Dixon
“Blithely unhinged, Rennie Ament’s MECHANICAL BULL gathers its utterances together from strange and varied areas of knowledge, while maintaining the kind of eye contact that makes my nervous giggling give way to a silence in which I can’t help but see how the poems’ words align with the world I thought I knew. It’s fun and also frightening, like the old joke—What goes ha ha bonk?—about a man laughing his head off. With casually excellent technique, Ament wriggles in and out of linguistic constraint, in contortions that leave my mind glistening with the residue of all that’s been touched: history, theology, horses, grief, beef jerky. What I am trying to say is this book is actually beautiful. You’ll feel it in your throat.” —Heather Christle”
