Newsflash Under Fire, Over the Shoulder

Jed Munson

POETRY  |  $12 $10.8

December 2021

[An] absolutely contemporary eye on problems of self and language.

Richard Price

A debut chapbook written in pandemic, Newsflash Under Fire, Over the Shoulder is a dispatch at the end of a coming of age, one shrouded by barely-functioning systems of meaning-making and thought. One such system is the poet’s voice: wrangling urgency and buffoonery, seriousness and self-seriousness, it willfully meanders through a collapsing landscape, sounding out litanies, evocations, and alarms.

About the Author

Jed Munson grew up in Wisconsin. His work appears or is forthcoming in places like Conjunctions, Entropy, and Full Stop.

Praise

Jed Munson's modern, self-conscious maneuvers manage to collage archaic forms of diction with an absolutely contemporary eye on problems of self and language. There's a sense here of bonding hyper-scrutiny, at times word by fragment of word, to riffs of freer monologue. This is a debut full of a detailed energy.

Richard Price

Publication Details

Chapbook
Hand-bound. 32 pp, 4.875 x 7.375 in
Publication Date: December 01 2021
Distribution: Asterism Books (US)