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Nester hosts the Karaoke
+ Poetry = Fun reading series. Upcoming:
Dec 21 at Bowery Poetry Club
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Saturday, January 1
St. Mark's Poetry Project
Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading
St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St., New York, NY |
Saturday, January 8,
3pm
Ear Inn
Poetry Series
other readers tba
326 Spring Street (west of Greenwich Street)
New York, NY |
Thursday, January 13,
7pm
Barnes
& Noble
Reading for Gamers
Other readers tba
106 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY |
Wednesday, March 16,
7pm
The Center for
Book Arts
Broadside Reading Series
with Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Limited-edition broadsides of the authors' work, letterpress printed
at the Center, will be
available for sale |
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"I’ve never seen a text hold so
many types of language—some fragmented, some falling into humorous,
tender narratives ... what this all amounts to is the creation of
one of the more interesting personas I’ve seen emerge in recent
prose. Nester’s voice creates the overly obsessed fan, bitter
yet world-weary and still exuberant, someone awed with nostalgia,
wondering how his icons have fallen into the bargain bin—his
lighter flicked stadium of icons, his falling decades of failure “when
one’s Hero dies,” and in order to keep going one has “to
cast myself as the Hero.”"—Sean Thomas Dougherty,
American Book
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These two books are absolutely fantastic
... raises the profile of obsessive record collectors from nerd to
artiste while simultaneously creating a genre of poetry where a new
word for ultra-nerd needs to be created to describe the authorship.
The first volume features one short poem for every track on every
major Queen LP. As the book explores sexuality, humanity and vulnerability
the lyrical text confusingly shifts from Nester’s personal biography
to the exploits of Mercury and May in a haze of poetics where it doesn’t
matter what or who he’s talking about. ... To bring this point
home the second volume is a track by track series of poems covering
obscure Queen albums, solo work and hidden CD tracks, thus, even the
fellow fans who were able to recall every Queen track and perhaps
relate them to the poems in book one is left headscratching by this
volume. These books are as beautiful as fat bottomed girls on bicycles.—Mike
Faloon, Roctober |
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"I couldn’t stop reading it. I
couldn’t help sticky-noting all the places I laughed out loud
... Nester succeeds precisely because he is so ambivalent about his
crush. He is idealistic in his affection but realistic about how the
wider world regards the object of his affection as a joke. This tragicomedy
galvanized the creation of Nester’s unique genre, whatever you
care to call it."—David Barringer, Word
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"I have to say: Nester NAILS it. The poems here are short and
topically diverse while maintaining their focus on the abundance of
detail in which fans wallow. At the same time. they are scratchy,
minimal ... they resemble the brevity of fan notes at the beginnings
of fanzines, or in chat rooms, or in old list servs. They celebrate
minutiae—quotes in the press, particular instruments played,
little known stories related to the third take in a studio that never
made it to the album—all the stuff the super fan knows and is
able to jump into with other fans, no context required. ... The lengthy
denouement ... provides a perfect close to a reading that takes the
two books as a whole work. ...Those of us who have been there—who
have collected all albums and singles and rare releases, or who, like
my friend Stuart, can identify the chair scrape at the end of “Happiness
is a Warm Gun,” provided he knocks out all the low end on a
decent EQ and cranks up the right speaker ... will most appreciate
the task of Nester’s two books."—Gabriel Welsch,
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