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...that continues to plague him. Berry, who played quarterback in high school, stepped right into the starting lineup at the beginning of the season after senior Gary Sonkur went down with a hamstring pull. Opposing offenses have targeted Berry all year as opposed to going after the more experienced Keith Howell on the other side of the field. The freshman has managed to hold his own and has consistently avoided getting burned on big plays. “It’s a very common freshman injury,” Murphy said of Berry’s shoulder ailment...
...hide.” Nonetheless, the wittiness of lines like “Gelman blundered his way / into your heart. You found him irredeemably / wealthy. You were both post minimalist,” is enjoyable in or out of context. Other poems are more approachable. “Keith,” the bathtub-cocaine-and-Shakespeare poem, succeeds through sheer force of whimsy. It’s hard not to like a poem that ends with the lines “who did you sleep with last night I say this guy named / Shakespeare.” Robinson explains...
...State during the mid-1970s, Black Hole evokes that era's great teenage exploitation movies with its attention to atmospheric detail. It even begins in typical teen horror gross-out fashion, with the two protagonists in biology class, hunched over the slit belly of a supine frog. Shaggy-haired Keith digs the fact that he has been partnered with the "total fox" Chris Rhodes. But as he stares into the spilled amphibian guts he becomes overwhelmed by a dark premonition: "I felt like I was looking into the future?and the future looked pretty messed up." Overwhelmed, Keith passes...
Black Hole has as much fun defying the teen horror conventions as working within them. Keith and Chris do not fall in love, as you might expect, while battling hordes of monsters. In fact, the first two thirds of the book follows each in parallel but separate stories. A stoned philosopher, Keith goes through his days working hard at doing nothing and just getting a good buzz on. After stumbling upon a colony of infected teens near his favorite woodsy spot for getting stoned, he starts to become aware of their isolated but darkly appealing world. While everyone else spends...
...chapter diptych featuring Keith...