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Released in October 2015, Dennis Milam Bensie\u2019s Flit: A Poetry Mashup of Classic Literature<\/em> 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<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n In a News & Notes item in Kolaj<\/em> #13, we introduced Bensie’s work.<\/p>\n About the title, Bensie said:<\/p>\n See more of this News & Notes item<\/a><\/p>\n PURCHASE KOLAJ #13<\/a><\/p>\n ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong>\n
\u201cJ.D. Salinger uses the word \u2018flit\u2019 twenty times to reference a homosexual male in his classic 1951 novel, Catcher in the Rye<\/em>. It\u2019s time to take the word back.\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nFlit: A Poetry Mashup of Classic Literature<\/em>
\nby Dennis Milam Bensie
\n8\u2033x5\u2033 | 110 pages with illustrations
\nISBN: 978-1-60381-323-5 (trade paper)
\n978-1-60381-324-2 (eBook)
\n$11.95 (trade paper) or $4.95 (eBook)
\nCoffeetown Press<\/a>, Seattle, 2015<\/p>\n