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ambition
Author_Steve Willard
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coloration
contemporary poetry
cubist
disjunctive
disruptive
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honesty
human possibility
interior landscape
invention
kinetic sense
literary poetry
lost human potential
multifaceted
narrative
original poetry
plaintive
poems
poet
poetry
provocative
repeated readings
subject and object
transformative
wordplay
writing style
Product details
- ISBN 9780520249837
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 152 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Steve Willard's work has been published in Colorado Review, Volt, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and 1913 -- A Journal of Forms.
