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Need Machine

Need Machine

by Andrew Faulkner

Published by: Coach House Books

Imprint: Coach House Books

72 Pages, 5.25 x 8.25 in

Paperback
9781552452752
Published: April 2013

$15.95

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"After reading Mr. Faulkner's incredible book, something happened. I began to feel bad for the person I was before reading his poems. The poet writes: 'I've placed dynamite around your heart and a bit / in your teeth. How bored you must have been / before you met me.' And he's right. It was so goddamn boring before we met him."Matthew Dickman

Need Machine clamors through the brain like an unruly marching band. Both caustic and thoughtful, these poems offer a topography of modern life writ large in twitchy, neon splendor, in a voice as sure as a surgeon and as trustworthy as a rumor.

Andrew Faulkner co-curates The Emergency Response Unit, a chapbook press. This is his first book.

Andrew Faulkner is the author of one book of poetry, Need Machine, and several chapbooks, one of which was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. He has an MFA from the University of Guelph and lives in Picton, Ontario, where he works as the managing editor of Invisible Publishing.

"Andrew Faulkner's debut collection of poetry is as sharp as a bag of razors about a subject that usually breeds nothing but milquetoast wishy-washiness: boredom, dissatisfaction and indifference. Instead of the watery, grey and indefinite language that these feelings often inspire, Faulkner attacks them with every ounce of acerbic, snarling wit he can muster." — Canada Arts Connect

"Faulkner is writing in & of his time, & doing so in a highly engaging manner. Need Machine is a fine debut." — Douglas Barbour

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