Education
He was educated at Naropa University (Master of Fine Arts) and the University of East Anglia (Doctor of Philosophy).
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The Louisiana Purchase
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Poetry. The linked poems in THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE carry the reader past Ozzie Smith and Thomas Jefferson into a world where the moon is an outlaw, a weeping elephant flees from the authorities, the Pinkertons upset the sky, effigies of Phil Niekro are burned, and a society made of words collapses. According to Scott Glassman of Rain Taxi, Goar's "clause-free declarative sentences are a perfect match for the edgy grade-school surrealism that guides us into emotional revelation." THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE is what Alice would have found had she fallen into William Clark's map instead of a rabbit hole; it is an uncanny territory that both delights and disturbs. "With America behaving as it does today, we all need to better understand the American beauty of years past and the American beauty that is yet to come. Jim Goar's THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE reinvents a landscape so similar and dissimilar to what we know of a country's terrain that it is obviously a beauty that is yet to be. Or more so, Goar reinvents a country that has no limits because it exists in the alternate space of the supernatural. So that a 'President's signature is printed on the face of the moon' in order to create a world where 'Kansas starts to bleed' so that 'the sun is taken from the sky' and likewise, to make a space where a human-modified moon can exist with us in a plain way, do our bidding, and also fight back. You should read this book. It's not the American story you learned about in third grade. It's the one you wanted to learn. It's the one that was always the true story."—Dorothea Lasky
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Seoul Bus Poems
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Jim Goar
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In 2006, effing press made his chapbook, Whole Milk. Of this collection Scott Glassman at Rain Taxi stated that Goar"s "clause-free declarative sentences are a perfect match for the edgy grade-school surrealism which guides us into emotional revelation.” Jordan Davis, in his Constant Critic article, included it amongst his best texts of the year. Seoul Business Poems (2010), his first full-length collection, was published by Ken Edwards" Reality Street.
This collection was hailed as a "brilliant portrait of life in a foreign city" and "a glorious example of sparse language and observations." Positive reviews have also appeared in Intercapillary Space and etcetera.
Rose Metal Press published his second collection, The Louisiana Purchase in November 2011. Scott Abels listed The Louisiana Purchase as a "Best Poetry Book of 2011" at Number Tell Motel.
He"s been invited to read his poetry at the SoundEye Festival in Cork Ireland and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. past simple, the journal he edits, has had poems featured in the anthology: Best of the Net 2007 and is currently in its 10th issue. The Bedside Guide to Number Tell Motel (Number Tell Books, 2006)
Dear World & Everyone In lieutenant: new poetry in the United Kingdom (Bloodaxe Books, 2013).
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The Louisiana Purchase
(Poetry. The linked poems in THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE carry ...)
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The Louisiana Purchase
