Mike Corrao, whose poetry appeared in The Gravity of the Thing’s Fall 2018 issue, is celebrating the release of his newest book Two Novels: Howl Revisited and Green Detectives on November 19th, 2019 from Orson’s Publishing. Click here to preorder your copy today.
Praise for Two Novels:
“Two Novels is an act of transmogrification in which Corrao pressurizes, punctuates, and ultimately mutates Bloom’s anxiety of influence until it ruptures, rapturously, into a uniquely Carrao-ian orgy of influence. Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Lydia Davis, Rene Clair, German Sierra, William S. Burroughs, Bertolt Brecht, Hannah Arendt, and John Milton are just a few of the psychopomps who elbow each other throughout the necrospiritual graveyard of Two Novels. Mouths abound in a polyphonous chorus of inspiration, yet Corrao’s exuberant melancholy, his reverent anxiety, refuses a Caligulian chaos of excess and insists, instead, on a poetics of supersaturation in which, as Corrao writes, ‘endless voices emerge from the source, the universal becomes unavoidable.’”
– Candice Wuehle, Bound
“Mike Corrao’s work is a series of precise explosions, punching through the rubble of language to arrive at something nameless. These two novels freewheel between history, literature, poetry, prose, autofiction, nightmare, and the sort of television static one might remember from one’s analog childhood, the set caught between stations, shards of narrative visible beneath the snow, the picture always threatening to resolve into the face of God and/or a diabolical hand reaching out to pull you in.”
– James Tadd Adcox, Does Not Love
“Mike Corrao’s Howl Revisited and Green Detectives come together to build a stunning collective poetry out of the detritus of life, death, capitalism and apocalypse. Resonant and unsettling, these works linger in the unconscious. “
– Anne-Marie Kinney, Coldwater Canyon