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Gazelle of Unfended Láatsi: Selected Poems of Gulliver S. Gulliver. Commentary by Tark Mackintosh. 96pp. ISBN: 9798874007126. gnOme, 2024. $7.00.
Among the poets who after the Great War began calling themselves dadaist, surrealist, futurist, rejecting the forms and tropes of the late 19th-century Victorian and Edwardian poetaster, Gulliver S. Gulliver was certainly the most enigmatic, and the only to provide as it were a roadmap of one author’s circuitous path from the sophomoric post-Romantic scribblings of his youth, through the nearly incomprehensible madness of deep imagery and cubism, into the precious vein of startled-awake, fragmentary, frequently enraged verse we have come collectively to call modernism. While Pound and Eliot commanded center stage, and schismatics such as William Carlos Williams and J. M. (Jewel Mapelworth) provided freeform foils, GSG and his Oaxaca City movement Los Decepcionados, waging a grassroots social and artistic revolution deep in southern Mexico, lived and breathed the creed from which was born some of their generation’s most influential movements. With canvas and notebook, championing agricultural reform, offering armed resistance to the bourgeois and landed gentry, under constant threat of ultimate loss, Gulliver S. Gulliver and his young resistance fighters sparked a cultural revolution that would continue to bear fruit well into the 21st century. These are his words, spoken in great and desperate earnestness.
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