Almost Thence Sum

Jeffrey Herrick's poetry, in an essentially celebratory mode, performs a disruption of language as we know it, a veritable violence that only the rarest poets authorize themselves to allow. It's an unprecedented genre created in the spirited interest of language self-reinvention. How we read poetry undergoes here the kind of transformation that awakens its inherent potential-- the possibility for embodying what Charles Olson called our further nature. And it's work with a concrete, visual dimension that occupies the space between many languages-- a work in diversity by a polyglot American poet who has lived for decades abroad from the Middle East to Japan. The author of several previous books, this is Herrick's first to appear in this country.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Published: 05/01/2023
ISBN: 9781581772210
Pages: 178