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The Laboratory of Time
Paperback
Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
ISBN13: 9781962316057
Publisher: Bamboo Dart Press
Published: Feb 5 2025
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.50 Depth: 6.50
Language: English
The Laboratory of Time, and other cutup poems, Peter Wortsman's third collection of experiments in the form, lets time be told in the way we live it, sometimes stretching a second into seeming eternity, sometimes compressing eternity into a second. The first part, titled The True Glue, comprises recycled assemblages of words cut out of the newspaper that make a newfangled poetic sense. The second part, titled The Five Books, is an admittedly unorthodox retelling of biblical narrative, the poetic sap and zap of it extracted by means of a vertical transcription.
Exhalations burdened with meaning, they are forever being uttered, stuttered and forgotten, trashed and mulched to fertilize new formulations. What else is a cutup poem after all, or any kind of poem for that matter, but a wild flower sprouting out of the dirt!
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