Charles Borkhuis

Disappearing Acts

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Produktbeschreibung

Poetry. "DISAPPEARING ACTS breaks new ground in Charles Borkhuis' ongoing examination of how language constitutes and is constituted by the performing body through a dialectic between image and utterance. Among my favorite moments here are the delirious syntax of the long poem 'Spasm' ('walk into my outline I disappear inside the / keeper's brain burrow deeper there until one / night he hears my voice as if it were his own') and 'Trace Elements,' a kind of postmortem aubade addressed to a listener named 'little tremble' with overtones simultaneously ominous and sympathetic 'I know you must / hear the inevitable crunch / of little teeth in the background.' Borkhuis' penchant for noir still flavors the pathos, but this book also demonstrates an expansion of his range into moments of generosity and something approaching exultation."--Tim Trace Peterson "In DISAPPEARING ACTS, comedy & tragedy are unmasked as the Marx Brothers--Groucho & Karl. Think: Kafka starring opposite Gloria Swanson in a remake of Sunset Boulevard for the Internet Age. Now you see it, now it sees you. Call the Roller of Big Cigars and bid him blow smoke in the face of the ontology police. After all, here we're talking 'subjectivity/ sans subject traveling the open circuit.' Yes, Borkhuis is at it again, dazzling us with another avant-garde page-turner, one where he's hitched his oxen to the oxymoron generator, tilling the fields with an equal dose of the marvelous and the macabre. Are you, dear reader, ready to reap this perfect collision of metaphysical inquiry with that of all of the conundrums of materiality? Now you see it, now it seizes you."--Noah Eli Gordon "In DISAPPEARING ACTS, Charles Borkhuis presents an eloquent manifesto of ontological stage craft. In nine sections, with no capitalization at all, a divided self voices meditations which conc

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chax Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9780989431682
• ISBN-10: 0989431681
• Artikelnr.: 40581890

Autorenporträt

Charles Borkhuis' books of poems include: DISAPPEARING ACTS (Chax Press, 2014), AFTERIMAGE (Chax Press, 2006), SAVOIR-FEAR (Meeting Eyes Bindery/Spuyten Duyvil, 2003), and Alpha Ruins (Bucknell University Press, 2000), selected by Fanny Howe as a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Book Award. His poems have been anthologized in AN AVEC SAMPLER #2 (Avec, 1998), Primary Trouble (Talisman House, 1996), and WRITING FROM THE NEW COAST: PRESENTATION AND TECHNIQUE (o.blek 12, 1993). His essays on contemporary poetics have appeared in two books from the University of Alabama Press: Telling it Slant (2000) and We Who Love to Be Astonished (2002). Borkhuis' work has appeared in numerous journals including: American Letters and Commentary, Avec, Big Bridge, Eoagh, First Intensity, Five Fingers, Jacket, New American Writing, o.blek, Ribot, Second Avenue Poetry, Skanky Possum, Talisman, Van Gogh's Ear, Verse, and The World. He curated poetry readings for the Segue Foundation in NYC for 15 years. He translated NEW EXERCISES by Franck Andre Jamme (Wave Books, 2008). The author of over 35 plays, his work has been presented in New York, Hartford, Los Angeles, Paris, and San Francisco. His plays have been published in Mouth of Shadows (Spuyten Duyvil, 2000), The Sound of Fear Clapping (Obscure Press, 2003), and Present Tense (Stage This 3, 2009). His two radio plays, Foreign Bodies and The Sound of Fear Clapping were produced for NPR (www.pennsound). He is the recipient of a Dramalogue Award and is the former editor of Theater: Ex (1986-1988), an experimental theater publication. His recent NY productions include: Present Tense (Alchemical Theater Lab, 2013), Barely There, and Flipper (Harvestworks, 2013). He lives in New York City and has taught at Touro College and Hofstra University.