“For years I knew him only as the biographer of Jack Spicer, the enigmatic poet who penned the unforgettable sentence: ’if it were spelled mune it would not cause madness.’ But Kevin Killian was much more, an experimental writer, a playwright – and the most important Amazon reviewer of all time.”
Schlüpfrige Lyrik und abgegriffene DVDs, Gebrauchsdinge und Gimmicks, Kampfpuppen und Kartoffelsalat. Egal was Amazon Kevin Killian nach Hause schickte, seine Reviews verwandelten es in große Literatur. Zwei Snapshots seiner genialen Rezensionskunst, aus dem Englischen von Clemens J. Setz.
It was a tragic turning point in the history of decolonization: the CIA-backed ousting and assassination of Congo’s president Patrice Lumumba. In the era’s visual and sound archives, Johan Grimonprez has tried to find a soundtrack to this fateful coup d’état, but fails to grasp its complex rhythms.