I, Boombox

Author: Robert Glück

Publisher: Roof Books (2023)

Roof Books presents Robert Glück's unmissable new work: I, Boombox. Glück is a seminal figure in the experimental landscape. In 1980s San Francisco, he co-founded the venerated New Narrative movement. His innovative prose has long made him an underground favorite, but lately he's received wider attention through publication by New York Review Books. His contributions as a verse poet are equally exciting, but harder to come by. Fans have been hungrily anticipating I, Boombox, a jolting new provocation full of restless musical desire and "synchronies of/recognition."

This is a sexy poem of bellicose minimalism with a sly sense of prosody. Instigative miscomprehension becomes the mode of discovery and generation: "I cast my net, /inattention." The subconscious refracts reportage, fiction, poetry, decorative arts, et cetera into streams of meaning, daydreaming, and perverse nonsense. Death lurks in pleasure's subtext. Glück implores: "Start a genital/uprising," but "the rest is memory."

I, Boombox is a major new long poem, two decades in the making, delivered from the New Narrative perspective. It will "stun on every/page." Our handsome paperback edition is illustrated by Colter Jacobsen. Glück will teach you how to "Breathe into/history with/your wet mouth, that/intricately/corrupt primal/real estate." Rush out and crack open I, Boombox as soon as you can!