January Machine [Paperback]

January Machine?is a book-length poem comprised of sonnets and sonnet sequences interrupted by?static. Rooted in the modern American moment, this poem seeks to understand the intersection of?Whitmans plurality and Oppens shipwreck of the singular. In the midst of geographic dislocation,?the lyric I becomes a place; I am the I undone, immersed / in perspective, Schlegel writes. I am?an American sigh, a limit / of language, a limit of privilege, / in this excess, a thousand exits.

This long poem enacts the restless mind at work, which becomes the ground for action, for critique and for re-imagining America

ROB SCHLEGEL is also the author of The Lesser Fields. He teaches at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.