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Any strand of this single-sentence, endlessly conjoined textAa DNA fiber mapping the new world disorderApropels the reader through a corridor of exquisite options and micro-narratives, like a string of Borges short stories compacted into the moment between breaths: "...andor realize your imac is just a big tamagotchi andor design a transformer to use up wasted ergs of energy from excessive pressure on electric buzzers andor quit making art in order to play chinese checkers andor tattooo your poems on the back of someone else...." Billed as a "list of book proposals," Canadian poet Wershler-Henry's second collection, following Nicholodeon and five co-written nonfiction books about the Internet, is actually much more: a manifesto for significant "andor" excessive action in a world circumscribed by unvisionary politics, false notions of rationality and productivity. That last is here personified in the infinite hunger of a technologized economy for all the good badAread: useless, fun, diabolicAideas that the young, the disaffected and the inordinately talented can produce. If the work seems juvenile and "easy," it may be because the author has sacrificed "difficulty"Aalong with any other self-satisfied poetic doxa one might nameAin order to reach out, to expand, to take prisoners and constructively amuse them. Wershler-Henry is the editor of Toronto's Coach House books (see Forecasts, June 5 for a review of Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget), and citymate Anansi has recently published Margaret Atwood and Michael Ignatieff along with writers more of the avant-garde. This exquisitely produced little book (5" 6" with paper flaps) will "make it funky andor hypnotize all your actors" before one can "inveigh against the laziness of railway tracks" leading to more conventional work. (Nov.)
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Any strand of this single-sentence, endlessly conjoined textAa DNA fiber mapping the new world disorderApropels the reader through a corridor of exquisite options and micro-narratives, like a string of Borges short stories compacted into the moment between breaths: "...andor realize your imac is just a big tamagotchi andor design a transformer to use up wasted ergs of energy from excessive pressure on electric buzzers andor quit making art in order to play chinese checkers andor tattooo your poems on the back of someone else...." Billed as a "list of book proposals," Canadian poet Wershler-Henry's second collection, following Nicholodeon and five co-written nonfiction books about the Internet, is actually much more: a manifesto for significant "andor" excessive action in a world circumscribed by unvisionary politics, false notions of rationality and productivity. That last is here personified in the infinite hunger of a technologized economy for all the good badAread: useless, fun, diabolicAideas that the young, the disaffected and the inordinately talented can produce. If the work seems juvenile and "easy," it may be because the author has sacrificed "difficulty"Aalong with any other self-satisfied poetic doxa one might nameAin order to reach out, to expand, to take prisoners and constructively amuse them. Wershler-Henry is the editor of Toronto's Coach House books (see Forecasts, June 5 for a review of Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget), and citymate Anansi has recently published Margaret Atwood and Michael Ignatieff along with writers more of the avant-garde. This exquisitely produced little book (5" 6" with paper flaps) will "make it funky andor hypnotize all your actors" before one can "inveigh against the laziness of railway tracks" leading to more conventional work. (Nov.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A brilliant list of book proposals, Darren Wershler-Henry's the tapeworm foundry challenges current poetic rules of form and subject matter and turns a seemingly utilitarian handbook for writers into a powerful artistic expression of defiance. Both a recipe book for poets and a critical examination of the recipes we've inherited, this is an eloquent and absurdist long poem on the parasitic nature of all expression and the anxiety of influence.
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