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in ghostly onehead

in ghostly onehead

Young, Mark
Nelson, J. D.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1736614738
ISBN13: 9781736614730
Publisher: Rangjung Yeshe Pubn
Published: Dec 25 2022
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
American experimental poet, J. D. Nelson, with voicings singular and unique, in in ghostly onehead, his first full-length collection, constructs a playful, melancholic elision. Employing purposeful, visionary poetics including cut-up techniques, he aspires to the radiant, exhibiting taut, bold clarity. A divine mix of the inward, contemplative, and hilarious, Nelson's poems propose a new-world where violin hats and skin-suits are in evidence, a crossroads, both circuitous and carnivalesque. The book induces in the reader, a deeply wrought current of ecstasy, the almost-celestial. A synesthesia of a broken-down America, of constructed landscapes where closing another bank account at midnight/the same meal plan for days and days is the norm. We discover, journeying back from sacred empty places there is enough soup for the lonely world, while the earth bursts/the moon of that. One poem's narrative asserts from cuts on my hands from puppy teeth/I become the wolf. In another, a voice proclaims, I've won this earth/I'm wording it this way. A bravo achievement! Get your hands on this superlative collection (a tour de force).

-Robert Frede Kenter, poet, visual artist, publisher of Ice Floe Press

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