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Lunic Panzemes

Lunic Panzemes

Leftwich, Jim

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1304275639
ISBN13: 9781304275639
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Jun 7 2024
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.35 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This is a book of readings of readings. It is not analysis, it is not a critical discussion, it is not the application of a theory or ideology to texts, but a record of the conscious/unconscious experiences of reading and engaging with that reading. It is an approach I have advocated for decades: that to understand a text, especially one that seems strange or unusual, the best approach is to pay attention to one's own reactions - somatic, linguistic, visual, etc. - and then to discuss and think about those reactions. Leftwich, in his many volumes and articles about new literatures, has developed this approach better than anyone I know, including myself. It is perfect for the kinds of experimental and avant-garde writing Leftwich both practices and reads, a kind of writing that is opaque to current trends of literary analysis. It is both a guide for potential readers, and an act of love and empathy toward the texts and toward the art of writing and reading them. As he says in a conversation about my chapbook shat on a tool, Finding meaning isn't a matter of translating the poem into prose, it's a matter of paying attention to what the poet is doing with the language. - John M. Bennett Leftwich's magnetic nerve valve of gravity, his cluster of dendrites thinking spacetime dismantles atoms' going-once-again-and-again cluster of observa to molecular rewriting's pulsing shifters for rerouting peptide sequences and reversing rivers, recombining a day's word orders per moments' quantum entanglements, counting the syllables one more time. Whether by glitched letterforms or paragraph iron, or whether it's by Leftwich anvil[ing] at least a few of his popcorn brutal, LUNIC PANZEMES revives the memor[ies] of unread conferences of songbirds. - John Crouse

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