Spectre

Poetry. "Lamoureux's disturbing and often distinctly American landscapes explore the interface between fantasy and fatalism, magic and machine. In the tradition of Duncan and Spicer, he is a metaphysical poet for our times, when even 'the cheerleader's dreams are sinister' and 'what was once all Wagner is now/ all Duran Duran.' What a pleasure to sift through baroque layers of ornament and debris with a poet of such keen and precise intelligence--one who in dark times 'carries a dark lamp'"--Elaine Equi. "Populated with broke down carnival contraptions, abandoned amusement park rides, darkly oozing shell casings, and haunted noggins, the strangeland of SPECTRE is glazed with icy artifice in the form of twisted architectures, mutant effigies, and the creep of strange glaciers inside warped snow-dome brains.... This collection offers up a chilling calendar of sorts, each box a curio slot of new days 'like the old days, only creepier, less goddamn real'"--Juliet Cook.