The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom by Noah Eli Gordon

The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom by Noah Eli Gordon

Poetry. A new collection from one of America's most intriguing poets, this is Noah Eli Gordon's heftiest book yet, presenting a decade's worth of honed, tightly-knit lyrics, poetic sequences, and prose experiments. These are beautifully convulsive, boldly contained poems, orchestrating from the musicality of syntax--the underlying allegro and tempo changes in the way we speak, write, and subsequently think--into an enactment, rather than a representation or description, of experience. Operating under Emerson's assertion that e]very word was once a poem, THE WORD KINGDOM IN THE WORD KINGDOM argues for the necessity of highlighting artifice even in the face of so-called empiricism. Here a sort of intelligent, discursive speed is harnessed from rhetorical arguments swerving at the last moment from expectation. Whether under the influence of the word or the kingdom, one herein is held captive by the joy of continual surprise.

Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, and Clark Coolidge were among the poets I looked up to as a youngster. When I think of poets from my generation who bring that same shock of living magic, Noah Eli Gordon tops the list. I'm always excited for his latest book, each a departure for unknown terrain. This is essential poetry, which is an urgent way of saying highly recommended --CA Conrad

I've known Noah ever since he was a flower on fire. This book burns.--Dorothea Lasky

With humor, anger, intelligence, & wonder, THE WORD KINGDOM IN THE WORD KINGDOM is a quiet masterpiece. NEG writes with such a high level & understanding of craft & technique that you can pick any page at random & spend the rest of your life staring into it like a solar eclipse.--Mathias Svalina

Gordon, Noah Eli: - Noah Eli Gordon was born in Cleveland, OH, in 1975, and grew up there and in South Florida, then moved to Boston where he sold jewelry from a cart for several years while attending Bunker Hill Community College; this was followed by UMass-Amherst, where he eventually graduated from their Program for Poets & Writers, before moving west and settling in Denver, Colorado. His recent books include BOHR'S SPINOZA (Quale Press, 2017), THE WORD KINGDOM IN THE WORD KINGDOM (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015), THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER (Ahsahta Press, 2013), THE SOURCE (Futurepoem Books, 2011), and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series and subsequently chosen for the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including THE VOLTA BOOK OF POETS (Sidebrow, 2014), THE FORCE OF WHAT'S POSSIBLE: WRITERS ON ACCESSIBILITY & THE AVANT- GARDE (Nightboat Books, 2014), Villanelles (Everyman's Library, 2012), Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology 2nd Edition (W.W. Norton, 2012), A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line (University of Iowa Press, 2011), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2011), and Poets on Teaching (University of Iowa Press, 2010), and was short-listed in The 2010 Best American Non-required Reading. An advocate of small press culture, he co-founded (with Joshua Marie Wilkinson) Letter Machine Editions, penned a column for five years on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: review of books, ran Braincase Press, was Head Reviews editor for The Volta, co-founded the little magazine Baffling Combustions, and has published numerous reviews, interviews, critical and journalistic writing. Currently, he teaches courses on poetry, poetics, publishing, and nonfiction for the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he directs Subito Press.

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ISBN 13	9781936767380
ISBN 10	1936767384
Title	The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom
Author	Noah Eli Gordon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Brooklyn Arts Press
Year published	2015-04-01
Number of pages	158
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