“Praise this world, Rilke says, the jerk.” So begins the poem “Alien vs Predator”, which appeared in the stolid pages of The New Yorker magazine in 2009 and caused a shiver of excitement, not just in the erudite ghetto of the poetry community but also on blogs and tweets. This was not just the result of the poem’s strikingly unpoetic title, a reference to a gory B-movie mash-up, but also due to the bouncing, colloquial firestorm of pop and poetical reference that it contained.
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