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Pulp
This feels like a fast-moving collage of pulp fiction, counterculture, noir, and literary memory. The repeated “Pulp / It’s what you make of it” gives the piece a strong refrain, almost like a song chorus, while each new pair of images opens another possible story: “the damsel in distress and the anarchist hero,” “fat cat fascists and Roman dreams,” “damned whores and dead beat widowers.” I enjoyed the way the poem keeps broadening its field of reference, from film-noir archetypes to Kesey, Ginsberg, O’Neill, Salinger, Burroughs, and Bukowski. That accumulation creates a convincing sense of cultural overload and nostalgia. At times, though, the rapid list of allusions and compressed phrases makes the poem feel more like an evocative catalogue than a developing narrative; the emotional stakes remain deliberately indistinct. Still, the fragmented momentum suits the subject, and the return to the refrain at the end leaves the reader with the sense that pulp is ultimately defined by whatever meaning we bring to it.
Adrian Chen
Queen of Tales
Well done. Loved the idea, being a history nut myself. My favorite author at this time is Simon Scarrow. Please continue.
Stephan R. Christophel
Queen of Tales
Thank you for reminding me of those childhood impressions we got from books — and of those almost-real experiences that came to life through our imagination.)))
Viacheslav Sannikov