cover image The Mood Embosser

The Mood Embosser

Louis J. Cabri. Coach House, $16.95 (139pp) ISBN 978-1-55245-095-6

With the economic boom receding like a medical waste-bearing tide, Louis Cabri's The Mood Embosser, collecting work from the '90s, seems both prescient forecast and politicizing panacea, tracking ""merge cartels,"" ""Your `yes' vote"" and ""The Telepathic Parrot."" A founder of Ottowa's Experimental Writing Group, Cabri curates UPenn's PhillyTalks readings and publications (www.phillytalks.org). He organizes the book in seven alternating `1' and `0' sections (one bit short of a standard byte), summing up the era (""It was the disappointment of products, it was the efficiency of the times"") and bringing us up to the latest versions of Newspeak: ""Today is the greatest-Day of the pie.""