Kevin Killian is an inveterate and unapologetic collaborator: even when writing solo, there’s always another presence. Whether he ventriloquizes through this other, or assimilates or deconstructs it is the reader’s call, and it’s a difficult one to make. The poems in Killian’s most recent book of poetry cheap wow gold , Action Kylie (In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, 128 pages, $15) are places where T.S. Eliot’s cats LOL, Antonio Banderas anagrams to “no brains on a date,” and Kylie Minogue’s derivativeness is more compelling than genius. In the process, Killian sinks probes into public-celebrity exchanges that increasingly substitute for news. On the eve of the book’s upcoming release party, I spoke with him about Kylie, Amazon reviews, an wow powerleveling d Ted Berrigan’s Pepsi addiction. SFBG When I first saw you in person, I noticed that you were drinking Diet Pepsi. Pepsi is also mentioned in the book, Kylie having been a Pepsi spokesperson. And there’s a video from a band called Ssion, a cover of the Young Marble Giants song “Credit in the Straight World,” that starts with the singer drinking from a Pepsi can. So I’ve kind of had Pepsi on the brain.
Didn’t Kylie do a Pepsi ad and get shit for it? Kevin Killian Yeah, at a low point in her career she did a terrifying ad for Pepsi in Australia. In it, sh wow powerleveling e’s on TV in a sexy video and a young boy, like 11 or 12, is watching. He opens a Pepsi, and she’s there in his bedroom, sitting on his lap, and is really tastelessly grinding into him. That video was too raw to be shown very widely. It wasn’t classy — what can I say? SFBG Since the cola wars are over, I was wondering if there was some sort of cachet to Pepsi. KK It was Ted Berrigan’s favorite drink. I didn’t know him, but I saw him a few times, and he guzzled it down. He would get a little antsy if buy warcraft gold he didn’t see a quart of it somewhere nearby. SFBG There seems to be a kind of split between Action Kylie’s first three sections, which are explicitly focused on Kylie as a subject, and the last four, where her relationship to the writing is less obvious. KK The book was written roughly chronologically, and I guess my sense of her was so deep — it’s part of my identity now — that she’s in it equally all the way through. I’m thinking of incidents, circumstances, apparitions of her that maybe aren’ wow power leveling t visible to you in those later poems.
SFBG The Action Kylie essay “Kylie Evidence” and the huge number of Amazon reviews you’ve authored collapse a lot of different registers. They’re not exactly straight criticism, or uncomplicatedly ironic. There’s a strange cacophony in the way they’re constructed, going from Wikipedia-style omniscience to something intensely personal. When you identify with Kylie as a “second- or third-rate talent,” it’s hard not to fe gold for wow el like you’re giving yourself short shrift, because that kind of writing does something that’s pretty rare to both “creative” writing and journalism or criticism. KK It wasn’t really a way of fishing for reinforcemen wow powerlevel quests t, but I realize that’s what it does. I had spent years and years writing about Jack Spicer … WoW Gold
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