Pop-Country Sellout

Wry Press, 2022

“Constraint-based dismantling of two-plus decades worth of hit contemporary country lyrics by Texas born & raised, Coleman Edward Dues. By isolating phrases/words/letters & then grafting them to electrical schematics, these concrete & minimal poetry-inspired pieces unpeel & expose varying levels of artifice, even as they somewhat hilariously manage to embody a sense of the author’s place & persona.”

—Michael Klausman, editor of Wry Press