Compulsive Words

Ruby, Michael

ISBN 10: 193540282X / ISBN 13: 9781935402824

Published by BlazeVOX [books], 2010

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Crisp, bright, and clean; except for mild shelfwear at the spine ends of the soft cover, excellent, nearly as new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Compulsive Words
• Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193540282X
• ISBN 13: 9781935402824
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Near Fine
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  • Poetry

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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.