Transfixion - Softcover

Lavender, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891053116 ISBN 13: 9781891053115

Publisher: Garrett County Press, 2010

Synopsis

Bill Lavender's sixth book continues the investigations of identity and community, language and reality, begun in the earlier books. Andrei Codrescu says it brings to fruition processes and forms only hinted at previously. Endorsed by Andrei Codrescu and other vital members of the American poetry community, the book resolutely finds its own way through the current poetic fashions. The language is fresh, the insights compelling-- what Pierre Joris calls "writing in tongues..."

About this title

About the Author

Bill Lavender is a poet, editor, and teacher at the University of New Orleans. He grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas but has spent most of his adult life in New Orleans.  He is the author of more than a dozen books, including I of the Storm, which includes passages on the Katrina disaster, and an innovative book of short poems, While Sleeping. He also edited the ground-breaking anthology, Another South: Experimental Writing in the South, from University of Alabama Press.  His poems and stories have appeared in dozens of print and web journals and anthologies, and his essays and theoretical writings have been published in Contemporary Literature and Poetics Today, among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Garrett County Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1891053116
• ISBN 13: 9781891053115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120