ITEM OVERVIEW
"I've heard it said that poetry that uses the phrasal fragment can't have a coherent and strident politics. I've never believed it. But if for some reason you have, read Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge and be shown the way. This collection makes the lyric and socialist realist documentary look helpless in the face of neoliberalism. If there is, as many want to argue now, a poetry of globalization, Jules Boykoff is writing it and those looking for what poetry might look like post-Seattle will find this necessary reading."--Juliana Spahr
"After reading Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge, I want to echo Tom Hayden's comment on the 1999 Seattle andi-WTO demonstrations: "I am glad to have lived long enough to see a new generation of rebels accomplish something bigger." Boykoff's inventive language -- "prophet/profit" -- reminds us that in the futures market we're all dressed in sheep's clothing. This book re-girds us for the fight."--Tina Darragh
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