,Said the Shotgun to the Head
MTV Books, 2003, 192 pages
The greatest Americans / Have not been born yet / They are waiting quietly / For their past to die / please give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an incongruent mean of babble and brilliance…
[Saul Williams is] a mighty talent. He takes readers on epic voyages into frontiers that offer a refreshing awakening of the mind and a roller coaster ride into an abyss of demons, deities, occult symbols, and more.
Said the Shotgun to the Head is an invitation to live and die in the moment, a confrontation of the politics of empire, a dare to transform oneself in the face of fear and a post 9-11 love song all in one.
Astonishing...poet. The internal rhyme, metrics, and imagery are so fleet...that they're humbling.