Unwinding Alphabets: A Book of Citations

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"Reading inspires writing. These poems employ stratospheric levels of quotation, imitation, and allusion so as to create a serial poem or indeed serial poems within a serial poem. The first series, "The Generosity of the Dead" is a close reading of the works of Lisa Robertson. Citations from her works supply the fabric for this series. Other poets are cited for the sake of the argument. The second series, "Alphabet Poems," works with a letter or letters of the alphabet derived from the first names of a range of chosen poets. The selected allusions are often a product of whim. The result is not. Among the short sequences and individual poems that comprise the remainder of the work are two hybrid poems, one indebted to Hölderlin and the second based on the work of Ingeborg Bachmann, a poet who felt disabled by the horrors of life after World War II"-- Provided by publisher