Weather's Feather - Softcover

Corber, Mitch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963740547 ISBN 13: 9780963740540

Publisher: Gathering of the Tribes, 2013

Synopsis

Post-modern American Poetry, 108 pp. "Mitch Corber, a stalwart member & chronicler of NYC's poetry community for decades, explores/reveals in this his first major volume of work 'veiled moons,' 'creaky cabinets,' 'weekend binges' & so much more -- with dark, humorous, romantic & experimental, at times cut-up/random-seeming verses infused with internal rhyme & wordplay connecting the commonplace with the metaphysical through meditative 'sporadic nibbling' & 'a mosaic of moods.'"--Steve Dalachinsky

About this title

About the Author:

Mitch Corber is a New York City poet, a wordplay artist, who has been writing and performing his work since the early 1980’s. A New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, he is creator-director-videographer of cable TV’s long-running weekly series Poetry Thin Air and the founder of the extensive streaming Thin Air Poetry DVD Archive, thinairvideo.com. Studying poets he’s documented on video has contributed to his evolving style as a writer. Mitch is a founding member of the innovative multimedia art collective, Colab (Collaborative Projects).

Review:

"Poet Mitch Corber's Weather's Feather is "raw testimony" to love, desire, loss and rage that exists within "the sum of forgiveness." A steadfast and creative presence in New York's downtown poetry scene, Mitch Corber knows the mercurial intensities of its liaisons and its allures. Its passions are his: 'Gentle me a symmetry of delayed/desire lit by a clientele of electricity.' Workdays become occasions where 'fond flowers fish for a wish,' and the whims of climate and ardor are enhanced by 'shy resurfacings.'"--Star Black

"Corber was introduced to poetry through nursery rhymes. He took off from there and never looked back. His flights of fancy display love, loneliness, impermanence, the joys of imagination, and unexpected ascents and descents. No one ever knows where one of his poems will land. And no two trips are alike. This is a book for worldly travelers who never tighten their seatbelts." --George Spencer


"Mitch Corber is a Dylan Thomas for the Hip Hop generation. His Weather's Feather is a unique contribution to post-Beat poetry as Corber is tapping into the experimental poetics of The Beats as found in Kerouac's Old Angel Midnight, Ray Bremser's bop prosody, Burroughs' cut-up experiments and Corso's Gasoline."--Joel Lewis

"Mitch Corber dances on a poetic highwire gleaning meaning from the verbal swarm that envelops us. Brawn and beauty mix it up in balletic bouquets of syntax fusions. Sinuous verse pulses with mystery and affirmation, aspiration and defeat. Beguiling and edgy, Corber's voice is authentic, complex and heady, like a grandy brandy that's been aged in a hollowed-out dictionary. Mitch seeks and finds the fine line where the personal meets the communal. --Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

"Mitch Corber, grassroots documentarian of East Village poetry scene for decades, asks, 'Have you seen my pesky porcupine / her spiny tingle, those naughty needles?' and while everybody else might just say Noooo, for Mitch it's an everyday experience. What's in those needles? Surrealist syringes, jazz bops and verbal nonstops...! Take two poems and call him in the morning. Name a poem 'Pyrex Bowl.' Don't take an answer for an answer. Goo goo ga-joob. Mitch Corber is the Mad Taxidermist, and language is his prey."--Bob Holman

About this edition

• Publisher: Gathering of the Tribes
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0963740547
• ISBN 13: 9780963740540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108