The Sound Mirror [Paperback]

Andrew Joron (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2009

Poetry. Andrew Joron's THE SOUND MIRROR offers poetry that is both cosmic and atomic, operating above and below the normative scale of human attention. As in chemical reactions, Joron's sonic friction breaks the bonds between letters and anagrammatically reforms a new lyric. As readers, we find ourselves in a symbolic space of paradox and impossibility "where / X relaxes relation, where / X licks the elixir of / night's rhyme with light." Other books by Andrew Joron available from SPD include THE CRY AT ZERO, NEO-SURREALISM: OR, THE SUN AT NIGHT, and FATHOM.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"In The Sound Mirror, the human is no longer the galvanizing agent, thereby letting the writing convey other properties of existence. By means of verbal slippage, by means of sound as simultaneous mirroring, a curious neural capacity evolves in the reader of these poems, allowing an elemental contact with incandescent mystery." Will Alexander

About the Author

A graduate of UC Berkeley, where he majored in Philosophy of Science, Andrew Joron is the author of five previous collections of poetry--Force Fields (1987), SCIENCE FICTION (1992), The Removes (1999), FATHOM (2003), and THE SOUND MIRROR (2008)--and THE CRY AT ZERO: Selected Prose (2007). His translations from the German include Literary Essays of Ernst Bloch (1998) and Richard Anders's The Footsteps of One Who Has Not Stepped Forth (1999). In 2004 he published NEO-SURREALISM: OR, THE SUN AT NIGHT: TRANSFORMATIONS OF SURREALISM IN AMERICAN POETRY 1966-1999. He plays Theramin in the improvisational trio Free Rein.

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Flood Editions (January 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978746783
• ISBN-13: 978-0978746780
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #821,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Andrew Joron is a writer and musician living in Berkeley, California. He started out writing science-fiction poetry. Joron's poetry gradually evolved toward surrealism and other experimental forms. Joron's later poetry, combining scientific and philosophical ideas with the sonic properties of language, has been compared (by a reviewer in THE NATION magazine) to the work of the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov. Andrew Joron also plays the theremin in the dark ambient/improv band Cloud Shepherd.