comparemela.com

Latest Breaking News On - Vertical rainbow climber - Page 1 : comparemela.com

Will Alexander's Epics of the Surreal

As one critic put it, his poetry conjured up a world built by “an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive.” 

Brussels
Bruxelles-capitale
Belgium
Madagascar
Tshombe
Congo
Democratic-republic-of-the-general
Democratic-republic-of-the-congo
United-states
United-kingdom
Paris
France-general

Bird and Shaman by Johannes Göransson | Poetry Foundation

Untitled, 1959. Art by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. Used by permission of Rich Shapero. © Rich Shapero. The Combustion Cycle (Roof Books, 2021), by Will Alexander, gathers three long poems written over two decades: “Concerning the Henbane Bird,” “On Solar Physiology,” and “The Ganges.” At more than 600 pages, the book calls attention to one of the great originals of contemporary US poetry, and at the same time it’s a record of something else something that has less to do with contemporary US poetry and more to do with another model of time and tradition. It feels like a record of a shamanic engagement with nature, with geological time, and, perhaps most radically, with what the political theorist Jane Bennett has called “vibrant matter,” the movement of supposedly “non-living” materials, such as metals and rocks. Alexander seems to be both the most American of poets part of several US traditions and almost not even writing in Ameri

Italy
California
United-states
Egypt
United-kingdom
Haiti
Italian
American
British
Egyptian
Kim-hyesoon
Garrett-caples

© 2024 Vimarsana

vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.