JOY BUZZER (Ricochet Editions, 2025)

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 éclair de loon dancing and pratfalling at the avant-cringe of performance. —Stine An

“Clown Poetics”, Henry Goldkamp’s singular and transformative contribution to avant-garde poetry, is fully on display in this debut collection. As Goldkamp’s ‘spectator-distributive’ 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. —Rodrigo Toscano

Both an endless loop of “HELLO” and one long goodbye to “[name],” Goldkamp’s book-length exercise in “clown poetics” shocks with the sharpness of a mime’s 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. —Paul Cunningham

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