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In This Alone ImpulseNEW YORK CITY 22 January 2010 |
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This is when being an "official" blogger at the Feed really pays off. With not a sliver of compunction, I now point you to a page where you may pre-order my book of prose poetry, In This Alone Impulse, published by Noemi Press.
Here's a fancy blurb about it from Brian Evenson:
"Locating itself on the boundary between poetry and fiction, In This Alone Impulse is beautifully replete with silence. One has the sense that the world outside is still there but dampened, and being reordered and reformed by the particular and peculiar logic and structures that these syntactically inventive prose blocks have. And yet, despite the formal concerns these pieces seem remarkably human and remarkably painful, opening up the blank avenues of a lone life. With each reading these pieces change, seeming less and less enigmatic and more insistently full of lyrical human meaning. A marvelous and original sequence; there's really nothing else out there like it."
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Badass. I’m going to get it when it comes out.
Thanks! Having been working primarily in long-form fiction for the past four years (it was composed in the summer of 06), it’s a little strange for me to be thrust back into the midst of these micro-prose-poetry-thingies as this collection finally hits the bookshelves. But it’s also exciting, like getting catching an image of myself in the mirror as a younger (more optimistic?) man.
I’ve been working on some poetry projects. But I never know what to do with them. I’m not known in any poetry circles nor went to creative writing school. So I have no street cred. But I’m still working on them. One is called “Statues.”
Looking forward to your book, especially since it sounds like a poetry-prose hybrid of sorts. Congrats on all your success.
Try sending the TNB poetry team some!
Love the cover! That’s some good design, there.
I’ve put in a purchase request at my library. Hopefully they’ll buy, like, a million copies. And I just pre-ordered a copy for myself, as well.
Thanks, Aaron! That’s a great thing to do, put in a purchase request. I should do that to. And thanks for pre-ordering!
The designer is http://www.mattyharper.com - he also designed my web site http://www.shyascanlon.com, and the cover of my sci-fi novel Forecast. He’s a dear friend with an amazing eye.
Don’t have the cash to make a purchase? Another thing you can do is recommend it to your local library–a great practice to get into with all your favorite small press titles. I’ve compiled a list of a few online recommendation pages here: http://bigother.com/2010/01/24/like-it-recommend-it/ If your library isn’t on the list, add it to the thread!