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After School Session is a generous and brassy cull of correspondence from Brett Evans to Buck Downs. The poems are a direct jack into the miniamp of postcard art sent between two friends; they hit hard in an open-all-night punk rock show for the audience of one. Like the form of Kerouac's Mexico City Blues, limited by the small size of a breastpocket notebook, Evans's gumbo is cooked in the scant pot of the postcard--an "afterschool rest stop of the imagination / real special." The poems offer one slamming and damming notation after another. Down's artful arrangement and selection should stand as a model for what one can do with our hazardous mail. --Tom Devaney Like Haiku's diluted by the wind, or "having a lovely time w/the girl you left b'hind...)" Evans's vernacular is half-noir and half-southern. Informed by "polaroids," "crab claws," and "star-prints," "Out of the Past" meets "Boogie Nights." A wonderfully intuitive and structural play on the languages of place and the sounds of cultural artifacts and icons. --Prageeta Sharma |