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Jason Koo will
read from and
discuss his
debut poetry
collection,
Man on Extremely
Small Island,
winner of the
2008 De Novo
Poetry Prize and
a Finalist for
the National
Poetry Series,
the Kathryn A.
Morton Prize and
the Ohio State
University
Press/The
Journal Award
in Poetry. He
will answer
questions and
sign books
afterward.
Advance Praise
for Man on
Extremely Small
Island
Jason Koo’s
Man on Extremely
Small Island
is an absurdly
funny meditation
on loneliness,
desire and the
silences between
us. By turns
mythic and pop,
Koo’s poems
explore the
anger, betrayal
and compromises
of young love,
as well as the
complexities of
communication
within families.
Man on
Extremely Small
Island is a
self-effacing
look at anguish,
an expansive and
inclusive debut.
—Denise
Duhamel
Despite the
voluminosity of
these poems,
they celebrate
and capture the
spirit of inner
malaise that
permeates
modernity, all
over our towns,
cities and small
islands. There,
in the language,
and in the
languorous,
frustrating
rhythms is a
portrait of our
being that
strikes me as
original and
ritualistic.
This is exciting
writing that
will make its
mark.
—Major
Jackson
The poems in
this book are
haunted by love.
Koo writes
plaintively,
honestly,
persuasively
about his
experiences and
the dimensions
of longing. His
work is also
socially astute,
incorporating
references to
both “high” and
“low” culture to
convey the weave
of information
and experience
that shapes how
we connect to
the world. In
that respect,
the poems expand
beyond the
personal into a
larger
examination of
desire. As Koo
writes, “This is
for the
romantics, / the
ones who install
themselves in
diners at night,
/ hogging the
booths with
their books, /
hunched over the
moonlight / of
pages.” I find
his vision
expansive and
humane.
—Bob Hicok
URL:
http://jasonkoopoetry.com
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