Selected Amazon Reviews

Killian, Kevin, Koestenbaum, Wayne, Bellamy, Dodie

Selected Amazon Reviews
  • 出版商: Semiotext(e)
  • 出版日期: 2024-11-26
  • 售價: $1,340
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,273
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 704
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1635902185
  • ISBN-13: 9781635902181

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商品描述

A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.

An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com, sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many, many, many others.

The beloved author of more than a dozen volumes of innovative poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship, Killian was for decades a charismatic participant in San Francisco's New Narrative writing circle. From 2003-2019, he was also one of Amazon's most prolific reviewers, rising to rarefied "Top 100" and "Hall of Fame" status on the site. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, Killian's commentaries consider an incredible variety of items, each review a literary escapade hidden in plain sight amongst the retailer's endless pages of user-generated content. Selected Amazon Reviews at last gathers an appropriately wide swath of this material between two covers, revealing the project to be a unified whole and always more than a lark.

Some for "verified purchases," others for products enjoyed in theory, Killian's reviews draw on the influential strategies of New Narrative, his unrivaled fandom for both elevated and popular culture, and the fine art of fabulation. Many of them are ingeniously funny--flash-fictional riffs on the commodity as talismanic object, written by a cast of personas worthy of Pessoa. And many others are serious, even scholarly--earnest tributes to contemporaries, and to small-press books that may not have received attention elsewhere, offered with exemplary attention. All of Killian's reviews subvert the Amazon platform, queering it to his own play with language, identity, genre, critique.

Killian's prose is a consistent pleasure throughout Selected Amazon Reviews, brimming with wit, lyricism, and true affection. As the Hall of Famer himself reflected on this form-of-his-own-invention shortly before his untimely passing in 2019: "They're reviews of a sort, but they also seem like novels. They're poems. They're essays about life. I get a lot of my kinks out there, on Amazon."

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本長度的選集，來自 Kevin Killian 在 Amazon.com 上發表的超過兩千篇產品評論的傳奇作品。

一卷迷人的膠帶。《真愛至上》的藍光光碟。《烤麵包機食譜》，《Stevie Nicks 的傳記》，以及一部因艾滋病去世的詩人選集。在這本唯一的長度選集裡，智慧的購物者 Kevin Killian 對這些家庭必需品以及許多其他產品進行了深入的評論。

Killian 是超過十本創新詩歌、小說、戲劇和學術著作的摯愛作者，數十年來他都是舊金山新敘事寫作圈的魅力參與者。從 2003 年到 2019 年，他也是 Amazon 上最 prolific 的評論者之一，晉升為該網站稀有的「前 100 名」和「名人堂」地位。Killian 的評論時而幽默，時而真摯，考量了各式各樣的商品，每篇評論都是隱藏在零售商無盡用戶生成內容頁面中的文學冒險。《選擇的 Amazon 評論》終於將這些材料以適當的廣度收錄於兩個封面之間，揭示這個專案是一個統一的整體，且總是超越一時的玩笑。

有些是針對「已驗證購買」，其他則是對理論上喜愛的產品，Killian 的評論借鑒了新敘事的影響策略，他對高雅與流行文化的無與倫比的熱愛，以及虛構的精湛藝術。許多評論巧妙地幽默——以商品作為護身符的閃小說式即興創作，作者是值得佩索阿的角色陣容。而其他則是嚴肅的，甚至是學術性的——對當代人的真摯致敬，以及對可能未受到其他關注的小型出版社書籍的典範關注。Killian 的所有評論都顛覆了 Amazon 平台，將其轉化為他自己對語言、身份、類型和批評的遊戲。

Killian 的散文在《選擇的 Amazon 評論》中始終令人愉悅，充滿了機智、抒情和真摯的情感。正如這位名人堂成員在 2019 年不幸去世前不久對這種他自己創造的形式所反思的：「這些算是一種評論，但它們也似乎像小說。它們是詩。它們是關於生活的散文。我在 Amazon 上發洩了很多我的癖好。」

作者簡介

Kevin Killian (1952-2019) was a San Francisco-based poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, editor, critic, and artist. Highly prolific and radically queer, he published several volumes of poetry and short stories, as well as four novels. He also wrote and produced fifty plays, and with his wife, Dodie Bellamy, coedited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997. In addition to reviewing for Amazon, Killian published criticism in Art in America, Artforum, Artweek, the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Framework, and elsewhere. Poet D. A. Powell has called Killian "a dark master of the word ... an inviting bridegroom and a voyeur who'll let us play in his fictions until we're spent."

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

凱文·基利安（Kevin Killian，1952-2019）是一位位於舊金山的詩人、劇作家、小說家、傳記作家、編輯、評論家和藝術家。他創作豐富且極具前衛性，出版了幾本詩集和短篇小說集，以及四部小說。他還撰寫並製作了五十部劇作，並與妻子多迪·貝拉米（Dodie Bellamy）共同編輯了《Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997》。除了為亞馬遜撰寫評論外，基利安還在《Art in America》、《Artforum》、《Artweek》、《Brooklyn Rail》、《BOMB》、《Framework》等刊物上發表過評論。詩人D. A. Powell曾稱基利安為「一位黑暗的文字大師……一位邀請的新郎和一位讓我們在他的虛構世界中遊玩的窺視者，直到我們耗盡為止。」

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