From a mock-play-by-play of a roadside brawl, complete with an unnervingly detailed view of the streetscape, to a casual yet thorough consideration of the possibilities of snowboarder porn-wear, Stephen Bett’s High Design Refit takes a straight-edge to the oddities of contemporary life, both reveling in and tearing to bits the inanity of the everyday.
Bett is “noted for his experimental language poems and his quirky takes on ‘postmodern’ life…. He happily gores contemporary jargon and pretension… [in] those jazzy riffs on contemporary life that I have been citing with considerable pleasure” (Journal of Canadian Poetry).
High Design Refit is a scathing and hilarious romp through the frivolous horrors of actually paying attention to what’s going on around us.
Ordering High Design Refit
- ISBN 1-894744-10-1, Greenboathouse Books, Spring 2002. This book is out of print but can be ordered directly from the author while supplies last.