KENNEDY, Jake. The Lateral. Montreal: Snare Books, 2010. First Edition. Trade paperback. 204x127mm. 67pp. New.

Winner of the 201 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. The Lateral is a highly original and experimental book from a nimble poetic mind. It includes an elegiac found long-poem that gathers all the "acker" keyword tags from the Flickr database and reapplies them as words-of-lament for the revolutionary artist-writer Kathy Acker (1947-97), a series of prose poems ruminations that contemplate the optimal conditions for the poetry, and a section of poems that can only be described as the vulgar, unkempt cousin of Hugh Prathner's Notes to Myself.