Notes toward an Apocryphal Text: Poems and Images - Softcover

May, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499393520 ISBN 13: 9781499393521

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

This new edition includes full-color images and represents the original vision of the author and the artist. Alan May’s poems have appeared in The New Orleans Review, DIAGRAM, Double Room, Phoebe, Interim, The Laurel Review, Willow Springs, The Nervous Breakdown, Spell, string of small machines, and others. His poetry collections include Dead Letters (2008) and More Unknowns (2014). Tom Wegrzynowski is a painter living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His work is shown nationally, most recently at Contemporary Arts Center in Las Vegas, Armstrong Fine Art Galleries in Savannah, and Transmission Gallery in Oakland. He is also the winner of the 2012 Howard & Michael Goodson and Richard Zoellner Award from the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa. Tom is currently an instructor at the University of Alabama.

About this title

About the Author

Alan May's poems have appeared in The Hollins Critic, The New York Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Plume, Willow Springs, The Hong Kong Review, and others. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama.

From the Back Cover

"[Notes toward an Apocryphal Text] by Alan May presents a new poet whose vivid imagination expresses itself in brilliant juxtapositions of imagery and language. His work has an immediate power and, beneath its often-absurdiste surface, is rich and haunting."
--BILL KNOTT, Author of THE UNSUBSCRIBER


"The poems [in this book] are carefully measured, stark and moving. It is a strong original poetry."
--SIMON PERCHIK, Author of HANDS COLLECTED

"I want to suggest that the complexity of Wegrzynowski's world creates a fascinating space for theoretical and artistic considerations."
--BRETT LEVINE, Director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Visual Arts Gallery, from the 5 from 4 exhibition catalog

"Tom Wegrzynowski creates his own ironic mythos, a world in which statements are made specifically to show up the attitudes lying beneath them. His images derive from familiar symbolic structures but refuse to cohere comfortably. What are pyramids doing in No Man's Land? Only Wegrzynowski's symbology can explain, and the explanations may still not satisfy a literalist intellect."
--JERRY CULLUM, Senior Editor of ART PAPERS MAGAZINE, from The First Walker Street Biennial

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1499393520
• ISBN 13: 9781499393521
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Wegrzynowski Tom
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 80