What critics say: “Einstein would love this book, since it’s simultaneously the fastest as well as the slowest read ever: fast because the voice here moves at the speed of a teenager who’s just scarfed a Monster Energy drink and a sack of Twizzlers, slow because that voice crams every line like a butcher does a sausage until it all but explodes on the page. James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara flit in and out of these poems, but then so do Tony Bennett, Roberto Bolaño, Donna Summer, Samuel Beckett, Amy Winehouse, and, well, everybody. Enjoy Pop Verité, reader; there’s no way not to. Oh, and it’s set in Paris.”—David Kirby
From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.