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Informationen zum Autor Steve Willard's work has been published in Colorado Review! Volt! Boston Review! Denver Quarterly! and 1913 - A Journal of Forms. Klappentext "You'll want to stop right now and read this book. No day should be without its adamancy! its invention! its honesty. Its edge of defiance! mixed with triumph! operates like a spotlight on human possibility. Always veering just out of sense on a curve of sound! Willard's is a voice that not only has something new to say but that has also has found a new way to say it. This is language at the speed of life."-Cole Swensen! author of The Book of a Hundred Hands "Canny interrogations of the doubled thinking recognition is! exemplary instances of a deep attention to the way! say! "the waves as they come rolling in unbanded stay / scrolled off a heart!" the poems in Steve Willard's first collection work the fine and lively edges where subject & object are involved in each other's uneasy invention. Harm . (and we should heard the charm & harmony here as well as the hurt! as well as a broken ghost of the title of Wallace Stevens' first book) sounds eerily into its equally desperate and delicate song a dense "reverberance" of all kinds of kindness "until a nature! neither of this world or a next net's! / attends us! does not exist." An urgently necessary and original book."-Laura Mullen! author of Subject Zusammenfassung Establishes Steve Willard as a true original, an artist whose kinetic sense of wordplay is deft, smart, and unfailingly provocative. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments I what little fountains we are (Only Life . . .) Craftiquel Row (Side-Song) Permission To Die With Slight Matter (Currents) II How To Read "Harm" (This Book) Continental Blue And Being Imaginable Deliciae! Solaciolum --less -tie air across my face! featureless understanding Shingle Mirror! Average Bark Shadows (Numbers) Tell It (To The Executioner) Board Of Rites Dial "O" Curved Glide Of Glazed Ambiguity Heart Like A Drum Immediately Thinking III Old Hours Bear And Policeman II "Fairest! Lord Jesus" The Iliad And The Odyssey Dark Drop Hook Process Arquero Candied Mai'nhood IV Endures Carmellathons But They Know Why To Talk! What To Say Stranded Voice/Deliciae Parking Timbre Cutting White Boxes Butterfly Steak V (Crinkled) Not Ever = Not Now Ideas (Denuded) The Calm Repairs (Invendavel) To Skystars! To Churchmouse Is There Anything Nugget Can Do? Ed Palestrina Where They'll Bury Me Seven Pebbles --less (Ipsa Possem: Fragment Acknowledgments ...
