by Jordan Scott
Hot off the Coach House printer: blert by Jordan Scott. This blog entry deserves fair warning: my usual propensity of overusage of adjectives and positive critical feedback will be at a high.
As some of you might know, Jordan's a close colleague of mine. It's been a pleasure getting to know him the last few years. We've shared a kinship over our rural obsessions and our curiosity for alternative approaches to poetry-making.
During the time we've known one another, I've had the privilege to experience many an intense and eye-opening conversation around blert, which has just emerged from the Coach House Press cutter a freshly bound and trimmed creature. Jordan gave a brief though generous reading at the Toronto launch last week, and he's now set out on a tour across the country. Do pop by an event if he's near you; he's an incredible reader.
I hope and plan to post more on this book in the near future. It's an important one for me, as it examines many issues central to my own practice -- especially attention to sound and its relationship to written text, kinesthetic response to text, uncommon English vocabulary, biological/zoological/environmental/ecopoetic references and study. This is just a cursory note to encourage anyone popping by this blog to seek out blert for yourself. Perhaps we can discuss it together!
1 comment:
I heard Scott read at the launch too. His performance was stunning. I'm looking forward to reading the book.
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