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ISBN 978-1-938900-58-7
\nPublication Date: September 2025
\nPerfect-bound, 76 pages, 9″x7″
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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

With all the manic zeal of a clown show, Henry Goldkamp\u2019s debut collection JOY BUZZER takes a bowie knife (a pillow! a leaf blower! a foam noodle!) to the absurdities of contemporary life, especially those of the poet\u2019s life. Utilizing his invented form of the joy buzzer\u2014named for the practical joke device that delivers a shock when shaking hands\u2014Goldkamp aggravates the distinctions be- tween poet and clown, page and stage, line and punchline, and humor and grief. Goldkamp juggles difficult realities of the current moment\u2014consumerism, climate change, the military industrial complex, a mental health crisis\u2014with the art and artifice of an enter- tainer, even as a frenetic refrain (Hi, I\u2019m Henry) asserts the person beneath the clown paint. Ultimately, this raucous, hilarious, and utterly unique collection leaves the reader feeling like an audience member after the curtain has fallen and the lights have flicked back on: stunned, squinting, and looking at their surroundings with new eyes.<\/p>\n

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JOY BUZZER flips off the voltaic artifice of the gag greeting to deliver a page-breaking stand-up elegy to all the readers in the audience. At the speed of fun, virtuoso poet-clown Henry juggles conceptual gags and prop poetry with the punchy poetics of an \u00e9clair de loon dancing and pratfalling at the avant-cringe of performance.<\/p>\n

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Goldkamp\u2019s book-length exercise in \u201cclown poetics\u201d shocks with the sharpness of a mime\u2019s knife, cutting through the pain\/pleasure of language and shattering the shiniest mirrors of polite society. Catastrophic, hilarious, and importantly stupid, JOY BUZZER is dangerous fun for the whole family.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Paul Cunningham<\/p>\n

\u201cClown Poetics\u201d, Henry Goldkamp\u2019s singular and transformative contribution to avant-garde poetry, is fully on display in this debut collection. As Goldkamp\u2019s \u2018spectator-distributive\u2019 performances catch fire in city after city, JOY BUZZER is instantly a must-have volume for those interested in either questioning or exploding to smithereens the lectern\/sermon method of doing poetry.<\/p>\n

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Henry Goldkamp<\/strong><\/a> is an interdisciplinary poet who enjoys clowning boundaries of language, visual art, and sensory performance. He lives in New Orleans, where he hosts the monthly poetry series Splice, acts as intermedia editor of TILT for Tilted House, and teaches experimental poetics, and clown studies at Louisiana State University. Recent art, criticism, and performance appear in Annulet, VOLT, Poetry Northwest, Triquarterly, NOIR SAUNA,<\/em> and Sonora Review<\/em>, among others. His public art projects have been covered by NPR\u2019s Morning Edition and Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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