Great review, Jules. Sidestepping Karrs exclusionary rules yields wonderfully playful poetic results no less serious than more formal or historical modes in their emotive or philosophical stances/arcs, & I loved your treasure metaphor being reintroduced here. When I first read the ms, it wasnt Cornell who came to mind but Rauschenberg, one word flying into the other, overlapping metaphors, visuals, ideas--the swarm event of addition by deletion, a palimpsest of feelings & memory pushing forward/outward. I was rereading parts of the book on the plane back from Seattle & remembering my difficulty in editing passages because the whole time (& I think the ms bears a few of these notes), I was acutely aware of having to interrupt an emotive machine with each cut & revision, which forced me to reread the poem over again each time I suggested a change to see if it still worked as it had before, dipped & rose & pushed whatever it was pushing into whatever new territory. Beyond Rauschenberg because it had carried its own music with it. (Like a folk singer. Or a faucet.) What a thoughtful reviewer, thankfully, so generous. So much congrats. & hopefully well be entering a second printing soon. Much love, talk soon.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:02:15 +0000
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