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Beschreibung
Will Alexander's Texas Blind Salamander Feelings is a recovered early work whose language pulses with hallucinatory velocity and psychic intensity. Composed of jagged poetic sequences and speculative philosophical fragments, the collection evokes a world shaped by elemental forces, surreal cosmologies, and charged linguistic improvisation. With its polyphonic textures and disregard for conventional structure, the text unfolds as a sustained act of invocation-part incantation, part cartography of the unseen. Alexander's poetics here are planetary and obsessive, drawn to metamorphosis, to fracture, to the generative power of linguistic disturbance.
Will Alexander's Texas Blind Salamander Feelings is a recovered early work whose language pulses with hallucinatory velocity and psychic intensity. Composed of jagged poetic sequences and speculative philosophical fragments, the collection evokes a world shaped by elemental forces, surreal cosmologies, and charged linguistic improvisation. With its polyphonic textures and disregard for conventional structure, the text unfolds as a sustained act of invocation-part incantation, part cartography of the unseen. Alexander's poetics here are planetary and obsessive, drawn to metamorphosis, to fracture, to the generative power of linguistic disturbance.
Über den Autor
Will Alexander has published numerous books of poetry, including Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten (New Directions, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Kaleidoscopic Omniscience (Skylight Press, 2013); The Sri Lankan Loxodrome (New Directions, 2009); and Asia & Haiti (Sun & Moon Press, 1995). Also known for his essays, plays, and nonfiction, he is the author of Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture 1991-2007 (Essay Press, 2013), winner of an American Book Award.Alexander is also the recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship, a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and a Whiting Fellowship, among many others. He has taught at several universities, including Hofstra University, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the University of California, San Diego. He lives in California.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781917617987
ISBN-10: 1917617984
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Alexander, Will
Hersteller: Broken Sleep Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 127 x 5 mm
Von/Mit: Will Alexander
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2025
Gewicht: 0,085 kg
Artikel-ID: 133972586