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Action Kylie (In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni Etc.)

Kevin Killian's work, particularly 'Action Kylie', intertwines his unique poetic style with the image of Kylie Minogue, exploring themes of authenticity and emotional complexity. He employs various poetic forms to express enthusiasms and the nuances of life, blending humor with deeper meanings. Critics highlight his ability to balance significance and emptiness, revealing the power of love amidst loss and confusion.

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Action Kylie (In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni Etc.)

Kevin Killian's work, particularly 'Action Kylie', intertwines his unique poetic style with the image of Kylie Minogue, exploring themes of authenticity and emotional complexity. He employs various poetic forms to express enthusiasms and the nuances of life, blending humor with deeper meanings. Critics highlight his ability to balance significance and emptiness, revealing the power of love amidst loss and confusion.

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Kylie Minogue, more than muse, is K. K.'s aesthetic m.o., his ammo.

Around

KEVIN KILLIAN
her name and image, he circulates the particles of his own uncanny idiom,
which is unlike anything in contemporary American poetry. Killian works
every instrument in the band; he sneaks up behind meaning, and makes
it sing. Somehow, in the midst of defamiliarization, Killian's voice remains
companionable and comforting. Action Kylie is a book I will turn to when
I want to remember that literature can regenerate authenticity as well as
renege it. Killian plays with multiple rhetorics and codes, all in the pursuit
of his own school of Action Poetry, in which I wish quickly to enroll.
—Wayne KOESTENBAUM

“But what does one do with one’s enthusiasms? Where do they keep?”
asks Kevin Killian. His answers—green fairy-light—arrive via both ancient
poetic modes (invocations, odes) and ones newly sanctioned (anagrams,

ACTION KYLIE
tongue twisters) by Killian’s generosity. As much as he’s a disco Boswell to KEVINKILLIAN/ ACTION KYLIE
Kylie Minogue’s unlikely Samuel Johnson (various Hodges in attendance),
Killian’s our Craigslist Walt Whitman: tenacious sage, he contains multi-
tudes, embracing the least noticed evidence of life—revealing its radical
transparency, all the while acknowledging its native mystery and sadness.
—Bruce HAINLEY

Have you heard of Kylie Minogue? The shining tormented pop star who
reminds Kevin Killian of himself? She, with her plastic sarcasm that sud-
denly breaks into meaning; her sincerity that like a love song is completed
by artifice; her true feelings that are revealed in the magnificent instability
ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni

and confusion of signifiers and signs (these days, who can tell the differ-
ence?). She, writing these poems, keeping the balance between signifi-
cance and emptiness, weighed down by loss and disaster, but shocked by
the power of love.
—Kristin PREVALLET

ISBN 978-1-934639-00-9

9 781934 639009

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