Steve Willard
Series: New California Poetry
Copyright Date: 2007
Edition: 1
Published
by: University of California Press
Pages: 77
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppx5n
Book Description:
This debut volume establishes Steve Willard as a true original, an artist whose kinetic sense of wordplay is deft, smart, and unfailingly provocative. Intended to be read in repeated passes, these poems are Cubist in feel, multifaceted in syntax, and brilliant in coloration. By turns disjunctive, narrative, plaintive, and disruptive,Harm.makes use of a wide formal range in reaching toward its ambition, which is nothing short of reclaiming lost human potentiality from current norms. Syntax flexes and the world is refigured, observed as if through a different camera's open aperture, drawing the reader to a new and transformative interior landscape.
eISBN: 978-0-520-94023-9
Subjects: Language & Literature