A first book-length collection of poetry from widely anthologized writer Andrew Joron.
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"The Removes is a book of American hieroglyphs, a haunting tracery of 'broken branching signals / Faultless as some harp tuning'...He hears the wind from interstellar space howling through the nets of language and transcribes it as an intricate and multilayered music." -- Geoffrey O'Brien
"The poetry develops in several dimensions and echoes of Poe add to its mystery." -- Barbara Guest
"The poetry develops in several dimensions and echoes of Poe add to its mystery." -- Barbara Guest
About the Author
Andrew Joron lives in Berkeley, California, where he works as a freelance proofreader and library assistant. He was raised in Germany, Massachusetts, and Montana, and attended the University of California at Berkeley (majoring in the history of science). He has translated the German philosopher Ernst Bloch's "Literary Essays" (Stanford University Press).
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An heir to Dickinson as well as to Poe, C.A. Smith,,
This review is from: The Removes: The Outside House Series (House of Outside Series) (Paperback)
and Lovecraft, Joron writes sinister hypotheses painted inparadoxically concrete abstractions. This poetry is written forreaders of english who intuit the complexities and chaotic patterns of human existence in the paved-over, virtual world that this Earth is fast becoming. The most striking aspect of these poems, however, isn't their ability to recognize the gestalt of the current era (although they do perform this function very well, as written by a poet who's thoroughly aware of the obvious -- as well as the muted -- historical, philosophical, and scientific forces and underpinnings of contemporary american life), it's their ability to draw upon the hypnotic potentials and energies of the mysteries that creep like weeds into our urban/suburban compartments when we least expect them."Rift, inhuman, as signature's / chosen accident" are lines indicative of the energies, emotions, and ideas invoked by Joron's swirling language. This "rift" is probably something most of us see everyday in our lives, whatever our occupations, yet no one can quite touch it, see it or hear it. To me, the best speculative poetry gives form to concepts and things which religions -- both secular and sacred -- would consign to a mental basement, locked securely behind a door constructed solely of what they'd refer to as faith. The quantum worldview will hopefully invite these mysteries into a more open environment, and Joron's poetry will throw a little more light this upon transition as it happens in the years to come. As a suggestion and possible prelude to reading Joron's collection, pick up a copy of Alice Fulton's Feeling as a Foreign Language.
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