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Compression & Purity

Compression & Purity

Alexander, Will

Paperback

Series: City Lights Spotlight, Book 5

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 087286541X
ISBN13: 9780872865419
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: Apr 19 2011
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 6.80
Language: English

The fifth volume of our Spotlight poetry series, Compression & Purity is a new collection of poetry by Los Angeles-based African American surrealist Will Alexander. Known for densely textured visionary epics influenced by poets like Aimé Césaire and César Vallejo, Alexander here returns to shorter forms to address his ecological, cosmological, and historical concerns. Highlights include a monologue from the perspective of The Blood Penguin, a song by the New Water on Mars, and Alexander's autobiographical lyric essay, My Interior Vita, describing the evolution of his artistic consciousness through jazz and surrealism. Compression & Purity confirms Alexander's reputation among surrealism's foremost contemporary practitioners.

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