Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. "Right from the start, Magee's work bristles with the spirit of improvisation. Everything about it pops: classic poetry chops, a serious sense of humor, unabashed rawness. MAINSTREAM is thrilling because it can turn in any direction at any time, moving effortlessly from wacked units of thought turning inside out to tender moments of highly focused nonsense and song that get, paradoxically, straight to the point." Drew Gardner
These poems were written while working with the Flarf Collective between 2001 and 2004. As K. Silem Mohammad points out, about two-thirds of the poems make use of various collage practices involving Google searches, and all are considered 'Mainstream" by their author in this way: "The mainstream is the scary global video game we live in, everyday, and it has nothing to do with some absurd publishing scam within which a few bloodless surrealists and failed classicists and Tools of the Homespun False Consciousness get to define what is normative."
