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In his new book, New York City Poet Pierre Gervois delivers a provocative and searing indictment of the relations of power in today's divided America.
NEW YORK - WisconsinEagle -- Super Leftist paints a portrait of the disillusioned American middle class struggling with acute anxieties around social mobility. With his clinical report style that withholds moral commentary, Pierre Gervois presents portraits of anxious civil servants, tales of immigrants, and unsettling stories of everyday Americans dreaming of upward and elsewhere while tied to mundane activities. His Poems expose both overt and subtle forms of dominance, dissecting relations of power and hierarchy in contemporary American society.
Saturated with class consciousness, Gervois's poems eerily resonate with readers, forcing confrontations with the brutal disconnect between the promised American Dream and the harsh reality of daily life. Super Leftist is a must-read poetry book in today's America.
Gervois's art dissects how language is used to construct, enforce, and sometimes subvert power structures. His poems and conceptual pieces often mimic the clinical, bureaucratic language of institutions (government, media, corporations), exposing how words can be both weapons and shields. Gervois's work highlights the ways language is weaponized to shape public perception, policy, and identity.
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In his book Super Leftist, Gervois's work is a mirror held up to the contradictions, hypocrisies, and quiet desperations of contemporary American life. It invites us to see the systems that shape our world—not as abstract forces, but as collections of human actions, desires, and failures. In an era of deep division, his art offers a way to critically engage with the language, institutions, and technologies that define our reality.
Pierre Gervois has created a distinctive voice in contemporary literature that successfully bridges poetry and conceptual art. His systematic exploration of power dynamics, social performance, and institutional psychology offers both aesthetic innovation and sharp social analysis. The work's strength lies in its ability to make abstract social forces visible through precise documentation of individual experiences, creating a body of work that functions simultaneously as literature, social criticism, and conceptual art. His contribution to contemporary poetry is significant: he demonstrates how traditional poetic concerns (human experience, social observation, emotional truth) can be addressed through conceptual art methodologies, expanding the possibilities for politically engaged literature in the digital age.
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Pierre Gervois (b. 1969) is a French-born American poet and conceptual, text-based artist living and working in New York City. His works are noted for their unsettling atmosphere and emotionless examination of power relations in everyday life. With a clinical, report-like style that withholds moral commentary, he portrays the disillusioned American middle class, struggling with the broken promise of social mobility. Gervois's poems were published in The Rattle poetry magazine in 2023 and in the Hong Kong publication Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine in 2025.
Super Leftist, published by Publick Occurrences Publishing, is available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon
Saturated with class consciousness, Gervois's poems eerily resonate with readers, forcing confrontations with the brutal disconnect between the promised American Dream and the harsh reality of daily life. Super Leftist is a must-read poetry book in today's America.
Gervois's art dissects how language is used to construct, enforce, and sometimes subvert power structures. His poems and conceptual pieces often mimic the clinical, bureaucratic language of institutions (government, media, corporations), exposing how words can be both weapons and shields. Gervois's work highlights the ways language is weaponized to shape public perception, policy, and identity.
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In his book Super Leftist, Gervois's work is a mirror held up to the contradictions, hypocrisies, and quiet desperations of contemporary American life. It invites us to see the systems that shape our world—not as abstract forces, but as collections of human actions, desires, and failures. In an era of deep division, his art offers a way to critically engage with the language, institutions, and technologies that define our reality.
Pierre Gervois has created a distinctive voice in contemporary literature that successfully bridges poetry and conceptual art. His systematic exploration of power dynamics, social performance, and institutional psychology offers both aesthetic innovation and sharp social analysis. The work's strength lies in its ability to make abstract social forces visible through precise documentation of individual experiences, creating a body of work that functions simultaneously as literature, social criticism, and conceptual art. His contribution to contemporary poetry is significant: he demonstrates how traditional poetic concerns (human experience, social observation, emotional truth) can be addressed through conceptual art methodologies, expanding the possibilities for politically engaged literature in the digital age.
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Pierre Gervois (b. 1969) is a French-born American poet and conceptual, text-based artist living and working in New York City. His works are noted for their unsettling atmosphere and emotionless examination of power relations in everyday life. With a clinical, report-like style that withholds moral commentary, he portrays the disillusioned American middle class, struggling with the broken promise of social mobility. Gervois's poems were published in The Rattle poetry magazine in 2023 and in the Hong Kong publication Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine in 2025.
Super Leftist, published by Publick Occurrences Publishing, is available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon
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