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Fugue State

Fugue State

Wilkinson, John

Paperback

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1848618980
ISBN13: 9781848618985
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Sep 1 2023
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fugue State is John Wilkinson's fifteenth book of poems, and the most fiery. In it, the world is thicker than ever, crowded with all sorts of things, from futures to the exhumed bodies of 80 girls. His muse is a fly, try to catch it. His sentences zigzag. His unique fashion of figuration risks cutting ties with verisimilitude. Opposing everything that blocks, hardens, locks, and pursues a single, choke-hold course, he takes his stand on the edge of chaos, not instituted law. Thus would he champion the precept of refreshment, not least the natural cycle of living things. More, he curses the misbegetting Gods [who] fuck in beach-huts of a cement Lethe. Data-streams, a horizon of ones and zeros, self-driving cars, drones, crypto-currency, robots - these are for him aspects of the concretization of modern culture. Fighting its sway, he is as steely as he is mercurial. Force is good if it's on the side of the vital artery. In the last decade Wilkinson has become a master of the longish poem - here, for instance, 'East Lake' and 'Xipe Totec.' Of poets now writing in English, he is the freest and most elusive-on-principle, the most capable of pulling out a language blade and using it.

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