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The Hotel of Poetry

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October 2003, no. 255

Rooms and Sequences by Mike Ladd

Salt, $27.95 pb, 148 pp

The Hotel of Poetry

by
October 2003, no. 255

Last year’s issue of Papertiger (a poetry journal on CD-ROM) contained a piece called ‘Transglobal Express’, a collaboration between Mike Ladd and outfit called Newaural Net. ‘Transglobal Express’ is an ‘audio poem’, the text of which is spoken by strangers on an Internet connection and set to a heavily percussive soundtrack. Clearly, Ladd has a fondness and flair for the unusual poetic enterprise. But I wonder, reading Rooms and Sequences, whether big ideas are too often pursued at the expense of careful composition.

Rooms and Sequences

Rooms and Sequences

by Mike Ladd

Salt, $27.95 pb, 148 pp