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Turpentine Headache

Turpentine Headache

Gustavson, Jeffrey

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN13: 9798991833486
Publisher: Epiphany
Published: Feb 15 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.08
Language: English

Wallace Stevens's claim, in his Adagia, that all poetry is experimental poetry serves as a tacit framework for Turpentine Headache. The book brings together the minimalist and maximalist tendencies that have defined Jeffrey Gustavson's years-long exploration of the lyric possibilities inherent in traversals of what he calls the jungle of language. In effect, the work investigates the preconditions of utterance as a source for poems, seeking to inhabit grammars of existence that seem anterior to speech itself, let alone writing. Central to the project is a serendipitous reversal: the possibility that language is not an instrument to be commanded but a force to be surrendered to. His explorations have yielded poems of unexpected refinement, intriguingly eclectic subject-matter, and an almost uncanny naïveté--ancient and remote, he says, like baubles some careworn archetype has outgrown and discarded.

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