Jabbering With Bing Bong, Paperback by Spenst, Kevin, Like New Used, Free shi...
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Jabbering With Bing Bong, Paperback by Spenst, Kevin, Like New Used, Free shi.... Open your mouth and see.'". —Jen Currin. Jabbering With Bing Bong, Paperback by Spenst, Kevin, ISBN 1772140147, ISBN-13 9781772140149, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Poetry. Kevin Spenst's much- anticipated debut collection of poetry opens as a coming-of-age narrative of lower-middle class life in Vancouver's suburb of Surrey, embroidered within a myriad of pop- culture and "post-Mennonitism." JABBERING WITH BONG BONG interrogates memory and makes its way into the urban energies of Vancouver. Language is at play with sit-com sonnets and soundscapes of noise; videogame goombas and an Old-Testament God; teenage longing within the power chords of heavy metal and the complicated loss of a father to schizophrenia. JABBERING WITH BONG BONG, chronicles the heartbreaking and slapstick pursuit of truth in the realms of religion, mental health, and poetic form itself. The poems in JABBERING WITH BONG BONG are formally inventive, emotionally charged, and teeming with ideas. "Belief and disbelief rub up against each other in this startling and flawless debut collection by Kevin Spenst. JABBERING WITH BONG BONG's urban and suburban-scapes vibrate with a controlled hysteria; a music at turns ebullient, ribald, somber. These important poems do not redeem so much as allow the possibility of redemption: `Sometimes words/mean nothing and everything. Open your mouth and see.'"—Jen Currin
