Not Now Now

In Sandra Doller's vivid, syntactically knotty new book, Not Now Now, the reader revels in a tangle of music, make-believe, motherhood, and the convolutions of collective entanglement. These poems are funny and forceful, disrupting temporal and structural expectations with an insistence on a single word's potential to shift the mood or rev a line's engine. Not Now Now interrogates the often-pernicious language of ordinary forms: "A paragraph is not a problem / a poem is," she writes, "It's not like I sit around / yesterday's news." The three sequences that comprise this exciting new collection underscore Doller's continued assertion of wonder as ethos amid chaos.

Sandra Doller is the author of several books of poetry, prose, translation, and the in-between from the most valiant small presses. Her work has recently appeared in magazines such as Fence, Harp & Altar, Pamenar, and Action, Spectacle. Doller is the founder of an international literary arts journal and independent press, 1913 a journal of forms/1913 Press, where she remains l'éditrice-in-chief. She lives in the USA, for now.