Glossodelia Attract: Preverbs [Paperback]

Words say too much to let you know the truth. George Quashas torqued, enigmatic proverbs create unlikely balances among discrepant engagements. The vectors of these marvelous poems work at cross purposes, keeping each other aloft. These are sparkling aphoristic aporias for a new age in an old time.? Poetry, says Quasha, resists immortality with difficulty. And also with wit and charm. Be here now, in which case immortality will take care of itself. ? Charles Bernstein, author ofAttack of the Difficult Poems? If William Blakes Proverbs of Hell are poetry, then George Quashaspreverbsare like a close cousin. Its core question is:can poetry say the unsayable?Like Blakes work,Glossodelic Attractorsmakes you wonder: whatispoetry? A well established poetic tradition both modern and post-modernsome call it experimentalstarts its definition with:poetry is not what you think it is.Its work is journeying inside language, as if passing through a distant country or else another reality. It conveys news of alternate dimensions showing through in the here-and-now, embedded inside our everyday thoughts and speaking.?

George Quasha is the co-founder of Barrytown/Station Hill Press. He is a poet and artist who works across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry (1975), and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in video art (2006).