Forthcoming September 2005 from O Books, the anticipated second book of verse from Paolo Javier. Check it out here. With a cover image by Mel Vera Cruz and designed by Amy Evans McClure (looks beautiful!).

Not only am I intrigued by the sample poem included over on O Books website, I’m greatly encouraged by the seeming titular play on the Magnetic Field’s 69 Love Songs.

Regardless, Paolo’s got the stuff, and if you don’t believe me — I have the evidence! Check him out at Boog City’s “d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press” reading in January this past year. You can find the video over here. I love that video — and while you’re diggin’ around, be sure to check out the other fine poets that repped Ahadada that evening here.

Here’s the obligatory (but no less interesting) blurbs:

?Paolo Javier?s 60 lv Bo(e)mbs is one of the most radically detourned poetics that I?ve encountered in a long time. Rocking hard the perimeter of a national American literary metabolic center, Javier deftly develops what critical theorists have only been able to talk about: the birth of a non-idealist anticipatory-resilient para-national subject. His poetry engenders a polysemic motility that gives inner-life to this new state of independence. What does that mean? It means your kolonial momma?s got your poppa?s digits ? by the products.??Rodrigo Toscano

“I am happy to think of Clark Coolidge when I read these brain-racing improvs, even though they are spun out on tropical and topical and political and polyvocal chords. These poems carry the youth of the world a whole step forward in all possible ways.”?Fanny Howe.

Can’t wait to check this out! Be sure to check out Paolo Javier’s title from Ahadada Books, the time at the end of this writing. One of the most endearing things about Paolo’s first book is the habit it has of falling open to the words “Fuck Me!” emblazoned in 36 point Garamond. What’s in store for us with his next collection?

More soon on 60 lv Bo(e)mbs.