So Frag & So Bold
"Every poet," warns Randy Brown, "has a heart filled / with shrapnel."In his new chapbook "So Frag & So Bold," the former U.S. Army "brigade staff jester" takes aim at endless wars, parent traps, social media, and stodgy religions. It's an iconoclastic cluster-munition that's bursting with more than 60 haiku, aphorisms, and typographic gadgets.Brown's careful constructions of line-breaks and language are intended to variously provoke chuckles, surprise, and expansive thoughts. "Any poem is a device," he writes, "improvised to explode with meaning [...] ignited by a trigger / word."Prepare for amusement, bemusement, and plenty of pyrotechnics!