Flit: A Poetry Mashup of Classic Literature

Flit: A Poetry Mashup of Classic Literature

by Dennis Milam Bensie

Released in October 2015, Dennis Milam Bensie’s Flit: A Poetry Mashup of Classic Literature is a collection of mashup poems created by cutting provocative words and phrases from old books and rearranging them into poems, illustrated with collages. In Flit, Bensie takes on the work of J.D. Salinger and 39 other famous authors and mashes them into new work, offering snippets of gay life.

In a News & Notes item in Kolaj #13, we introduced Bensie’s work.

About the title, Bensie said:

“J.D. Salinger uses the word ‘flit’ twenty times to reference a homosexual male in his classic 1951 novel, Catcher in the Rye. It’s time to take the word back.”

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Flit: A Poetry Mashup of Classic Literature
by Dennis Milam Bensie
8″x5″ | 110 pages with illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-60381-323-5 (trade paper)
978-1-60381-324-2 (eBook)
$11.95 (trade paper) or $4.95 (eBook)
Coffeetown Press, Seattle, 2015

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