RED EPIC

by Joshua Clover

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Our first release, Red Epic invents a volatile poetry for a world on fire, written to illuminate the wreckage of the most recent gilded age. Leaping levels from global systems to street fights and back again, accompanied by a Top 40 soundtrack full of Robyn and M.I.A., it remixes utopian hope and revolutionary antagonism

“A sincere trickster, Clover writes poems with quick bursts of beautiful images and prose- poems that mix different conversational voices—combining romance, politics, literary theory, and humor.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Clover consciously dedicates himself and his poems to the present’s global wave of struggles.” —Lana Turner

“My Life in the New Millennium”

It was true that the more I hated people the more I loved cats.
Then people started to surprise me.
Often this involved fire or coca-cola
bottles with petrol which amounts to the same thing.
Once fire is the form of the spectacle the problem
becomes how to set fire to fire.
Some friends were prepared to help with this which
Michael Jackson having died and then Whitney Houston
was the new pop music. Without an understanding
of the world system and the underlying truth of land
as the place of politics and the sea as the space of commerce
it is hard to integrate that other
most important fact of our era. Pirates. My friends
and pirates and cats — it comes down
to comrades known and elsewhere.

About the Author

Lauded by sources from Judith Butler to Entertainment Weekly, Joshua Clover’s poetry had received multiple honors including the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Village Voice book of the year. His poems appear in many anthologies, including three times in the Best American Poetry, twice in Pushcart Prize collections, and one poem in the prestigious Norton Introduction to Literature. He has also translated French poetry extensively; his own poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Flemish, Polish, Greek, Swedish, and Danish. Born in Oakland and still a Bay Area resident, he has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and GQ; he has been a columnist for SPIN, The Village Voice, and The Nation, where he currently writes “Pop and Circumstance.” He is a Professor of Literature at the University of California Davis.

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