Spiritual Poems of the Soul
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In this dazzling cycle of poems, Doug Nufer, wizardly author of poetry and prose works based on formal constraints, starts with a simple constructive rule, exemplified by its title: present a sequence of letters, grouped into a word or words; follow it by the same sequence, differently grouped; repeat. This foundational principle, ruthless in its purity, gives rise, like a jazzy passacaglia, to the most diverse forms, whose endless variations murder and reproduce like cellular automata creeping across the page. In the mind and ear of the reader, meanings, rhythms and sounds burst into dizzying presence and are swept away with ebullient panache. Nufer's art here is a high-energy high-wire act of wit, joining formal severity with frivolity and making stops at all points in between. Don't be afraid, Reader, to take the local and spend some time on this tour, bar-hopping with your precise yet whimsical guide across an initially alien but ultimately friendly and stimulating spaceyou will end up welcoming the cheerful pop of your newly effervescent brain exploding.
Doug Nufer is the author of the poetry collections WE WERE WEREWOLVES (Make Now, 2008), The Dammed (ubu.com, 2011), and Lounge Acts (Insert Blanc, 2013). His novels include METAMORPHOSIS (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2018), Lifeline Rule (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015), BY KELMAN OUT OF PESSOA (Les Figues, 2011), The Mudflat Man/The River Boys (soultheft records, 2006), On the Roast (Chiasmus, 2004), NEGATIVELAND (Autonomedia, 2004), and Never Again (Black Square, 2004). His latest book is ROTALEVER REVELATOR (Sagging Meniscus, 2020). He sells wine in Seattle.
- ISBN-13
- 9781944697426
- Publisher
- Sagging Meniscus Press
- Imprint
- Sagging Meniscus Press
- Publication date
- 1 July 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 138
- Dimensions
- 150 x 115 mm
- Language
- English
