Publisher's Synopsis
The eclectic, disorganized, and manicky 28 year old Kansas poet, journalist, & satirist, Alexej Savreux, transplanted from New England and the realm of the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics brings us his third collection of poetry: "Asoak in the Knight's Moat". While academicians and literary critics have hailed previous collections (particularly "Graffiti on the Window") as "spellbinding" and "reminiscent" of more traditional forms written hundreds of years ago. "Asoak" is written from the vantage point of Alex the "ritalin kid". At once uncontrolled craziness, bizarreness, and highly intimate, "Asoak" is a very peculiar collection derivative of the incomprehensible content of The Cantos or Naked Lunch, only from the pen of a twenty-something who claims to need a "drip" of ADHD medication. Some poems are satirical, others, mere observations, journal entries, ideas, frustrations, chants, notes, interviews, equations, diagrams, goodbyes, prayers, concept poems, one-liners, and Savreux, armed with his trademark sardonic, pompous wit entices the beauty (and nefariously sentimental) out of a world mired in verbal and existential schizophrenia. Again, not so much a modern poet. Savreux is in his own world, and it is in that world that he thrives. And very few subjects are left out. Overall, "Asoak" is a poignant journal of idiosyncratic, colorful, and inventive poetry that shouts and whispers -- and even: "screams".
