Something happens when the right two words or three are isolated together on a page, but whether or not this indeterminate wave-particle of pith is a “poem” is unimportant. The phenomenon matters more than its tag. Whatever it is, it may be the culmination of literary historical trends, making it the ultimate in literary minimalism, and the vanishing point for that most characteristic of Modernist trends in poetry: ever-greater compression or breviloquence. Indeed, the rock band name may be pointing the way to a new poetic form for the age of texting, tweeting, and haiku reviews. An essay at the back of the book makes the case for a new poetry form inspired by the rock band name: the two-word poem.
- from Choicest Rock Band Names as Tiny Poems, by Escallonia Press