Compulsive Words
Michael Ruby
ISBN 10: 193540282X ISBN 13: 9781935402824
Published by BlazeVOX [books], 2010
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Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy, text also very good. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 164515
Synopsis:
Reading the poems in Compulsive Words is like taking a hard drug. -Aaron Kiely Michael Ruby's new book is experienced as a kind of sotto voce diction, an unrelenting mumbling in the back of the mind, which takes two very different forms: as a graphic representation of voices (words presented in diagrammatic patterns), and as what might be "transcriptions" of those diagrams and patterns: "O paper placement machines/Blue ladder to family problems" or "Somnabulist prows to leaven/Healthy escarole..." Or perhaps the diagrams are transcriptions of the other texts: the tense dialectic between these two poles is one of the things that makes this book well worth contemplating. -John M. Bennett
About the Author: Michael Handler Ruby is the author of four other books of poetry-At an Intersection (Alef Books, 2002), Window on the City (BlazeVOX [books], 2006), Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling Presse ebook, 2008) and The Edge of the Underworld (BlazeVOX, 2010)-and the editor of Washtenaw County Jail and Other Writings by David Herfort (Xlibris, 2005). A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University's writing program, he lives in Brooklyn and works as an editor at The Wall Street Journal.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Compulsive Words
Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good