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A burglar near the end of the century hears a song thrush on trumpet. William Blake, senior citizen of Lambeth, is walking through the Brixton riots. Garden design encodes aesthetics and slavery. This is our poetry. It ranges from archaeology to jazz, from genetics to ZAP vectors via Paxton and Mandelbrot, a performance in time. Allen Fisher's epic Gravity is an alphabet of procedural poems, a conceptual cinema, a fun-park, and a museum of anthropology. Deliberately imperfect, democratic, non-totalising, vivid and beautiful: we could not have imagined it without him.
List of contents
- 1. Brixton Fractals
- Banda
- Around the World
- Ballin' the Jack
- African Twist
- accretion
- Atkins Stomp
- African Boog
- Bel Air
- Boogaloo
- acuity
- Boogie Stomp
- Black Bottom
- Boogie Break
- Birdland
- 2. Breadboard
- Boogie Woogie
- Bop
- coda to Boogie Woogie and Bop for Albert Ayler
- Boston Monkey
- Break-a-leg
- Breaks
- brend
- Busoni
- Butor. Passing Time again
- Bristol Stomp
- Bugaloo
- Buzzards and Bees
- Buzz Step
- Buzzard
- Bunny Hop
- Buzzard Glide
- Bumble Bee
- 3. Civic Crime
- Cakewalk
- Camel Walk
- Cha Cha
- Charleston
- Charley-Bop
- Chicken
- 4. Dispossession & Cure
- Dirty Dog
- Accounts
- Choo Choo
- Chug
- Chorus Hook
- chreod
- cigar
- Convalescence
- Circle
- Conga
- Continental Walk
- Crab Walk
- Collimate
- Curie
- dance
- disk
- duck-pillow
- Dog
- Work Consciousness Commodity: Three Kinds of Perception
- 1. Ditty Bop Walk
- 2. Dixieland One Step
- 3. Double Shuffle
- 5. Fizz
- Grind
- Fish-Tail
- Frug
- Eagle Rock
- Ferneyhough
- Funky Broadway
- Fox Trot
- Freeze
- Goose Neck
- Heebie Jeebies
- Dispossession & Cure 2
- Horse
- Huckle Buck
- Hully-Gully
About the author
Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, lives in Hereford. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited in many shows including Hereford 2013, London 2003 and York 1993. Examples are in the Tate, the Living Museum, Iceland, King's Archive London and various private collections. His last four books were
Place,
Entanglement,
Gravity and
Proposals.
