The Centos of Simon Schuchat

Author: Simon Schuchat

Publisher: Edge Books (2024)

Some books make you want to write, some books make you want to reread  them, some books make you want to read everything in the world with a  pencil ready to make exclamation marks in the margin. The Centos of Simon Schuchat pulls off this hat trick with a debonair nonchalance we  had been told was extinct. We were told wrong. A book suitable for every room in your house. Get at least as many copies as you have rooms.
—Jordan Davis

Centos non Centos.  Even from the very first letter of the title of this brilliant obfuscation, Simon Schuchat transforms text into a new form that beguiles the original message through a Dalí inspired steganography.  His masterful lines charm with a tension that immerses the reader in mystery and play.
—Maureen Owen

Simon Schuchat's wry, aphoristic prose poems skewer pretensions by honoring the affordances and accommodations of everyday life. Serial arrays of sage observations and fractured revelations (borrowed and blue), gleanings from imagined lives punctuating political pragmatics (often in the guise of barbs), a set of pandemic notes, all coalesce into a grand commentary on the human comedy.
– Charles Bernstein