The Sensory Cabinet [Paperback]

Mark DuCharme (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2007

Poetry. "Throughout this book and its poems, DuCharme seems to be about to define his project, but as you eagerly slide into a suggested narrowing, reader beware you are about to widen (yes you yourself) far before you hit the ground. The other poet who writes like that is Bernadette Mayer, in which the poem is tight but not suffocated. I don't know if these poems may 'work' or 'achieve' more or less or equally than any other poems but I am certain that they risk more and in so doing enable a reading experience that is alive and challenging which is no small feat in these times in which mainstream poetry academicians have incorporated the language of the avant garde to liven and mask their neoclassical impulses. At every line I found myself being asked to think and to think quick and expansively. The poems in Mark DuCharme's SENSORY CABINET feel their way into form cum content and content and song and sound cum form. I can continue to sing many praises for the poet Mark DuCharme, to his unique use of the serial, to his real world accountability, to his excellent vocabulary, to his lack of predictability no doubt even to himself, to his rhymes and humor, but since if you are reading this blurb you've picked his book up, do yourself a favor and read it yourself"--Rachel Levitsky.

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About the Author

Mark DuCharme is the author of more than a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry. Among the most recent are THE SENSORY CABINET (BlazeVOX Books, 2007), The Crowd Poems (Potato Clock Editions, 2007), INFINITY SUBSECTIONS (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2004), Cosmopolitan Tremble (Pavement Saw, 2002) and Anon (cowritten with Anselm Hollo, Patrick Pritchett & Laura E. Wright, with illustrations by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo: Potato Clock Editions, 2001). His poetry and poetics essays have been appearing widely in print and online journals since the early 1990s. DuCharme is a graduate of the University of Michigan and received his MFA degree from Naropa University. Winner of the Neodata Endowment Grant in Literature (Poetry) in 2006 and of a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry from Sun & Moon Press, he was a coordinator of the Left Hand Reading Series, the archives of which can be found on the University of Pennsylvania's PennSound website. He now curates the Stratford Park Reading Series. He has taught in Naropa University's renowned Summer Writing Program, and teaches at Front Range Community College. DuCharme lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

Product Details

• Paperback: 103 pages
• Publisher: BlazeVOX Books (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934289302
• ISBN-13: 978-1934289303
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,599,341 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)