Who's Who Vivid is a new-jack romantic textbook a chapter in the New Sincerity with themes of love and loss, spun out in a language, which is by turns (recklessly) passionate, musical, and ridiculous. It's an attempt to connect the experimental muscle of the 20th Century not only with the marvelous tradition of Poetry (its aesthetic strategies and values) but also with the urgencies, emergencies and joys of RIGHT NOW this instant! As such, the book is a sort of search, both for new value in the face of postmodern valuelessness, and for a stable unified self in the funhouse of splintersthis life of images upon images upon images... It's also a re-defense of both the power of the individual (as a significant force in the face of The Vast or What Have You) and of poetry (as a naturally expressive and inventive engine for change in the world). Tonally expressive and wildly inspirited, Who's Who Vivid begins in the kitchen inventing a monster, then winds its way forward pining, dancing, and doing the dishes until at last, face up on the tarmac of the world, it pitches itself into the void, awaiting anyone's most marvelous reply.
