MS by Michael Magee

The ratio of content-to-form-a cultural-info-gap rhythm bop to shape utterance-is
what marks a poetic generation's unique forms-of-attention, then Magee's new
book is a bundled pack of 'em. The discursively promiscuous clauses of these
poems, cut generously with a slide-wit on the national symbols blared, dice up
much of the linger-ing prosaic transparency of American Poetry (Inc.). Here's no
mono-logic gnosis gnashing of "repressed subject" possibilities, while at the
same time no fashionable duncing of the socially determinative either. This rhetor's
got the apps (and multiplexed 'mouth') to get you to the next level-Your Turn.    Rodrigo Toscano

Stuttering turns into syncopation in this edgily engaging collocation of accents,
attitudes, occasions. The poems in MS are provocative, certainly without idealization,
the dollars-and-cents context of our grainy American dream. Mike Magee's detailed
optical-ocular orbit-ing effects -- "other-wise / waning or adroitly loitering" -- make
reading this collection a constant surprise.    Susan Howe

Michael Magee's MS is new music . . . a carnivalesque palimpsest of vision and ventriloquy,
supple rhythm informed by Hiphop era ironies and an erudite grasp of postmodern poetics.
This marvelous Century 21 ethnic American remix of personal history and society's mystery is
both demanding and delightful. You need this book! Mr. Magee creates poems that tickle the
ear and open a new window in the mind's eye. Read aloud. Think fast.    Lorenzo Thomas