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Welcome to the combat fishing homepage: experimental poets against the war.("DeathStar/rico-chet" by Judith Goldman/"Mediated" by Carol Mirakove/"War, the Musical" by Robert Fitterman and Dirk Rowntree)(Book review)

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| December 18, 2006 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

DeathStar/rico-chet JUDITH GOLDMAN, O Books (SPD, dist.), $14 paper (120p) ISBN 1-882022-61-0

From the opening salvo of "OSI RIP(?) c.2/19/02-c.2/26/06"--compiling shards of news related to the ill-fated U.S. Office of Strategic Influence (designed to influence public opinion in the Arab world)--the second book from Goldman (Vocoder) appropriates, parodies and transforms the writing and speech that surround the war on terror. Verbatim transcriptions (including Enron phone deals: "Could I sell it to you and buy it back from you at Palo Verde?"), resonantly random Web detritus ("Welcome to the Combat fishing homepage") and pulverized exchanges C '5t0mped'? Then …

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