Doublespace: Poems 1971-1989 - Lazer, Hank
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Poetry. "DOUBLESPACE is a noble attempt to bridge the chasm between Language poetry and the traditional anectdotal and meditative poetry of the 'free form' mode. Free form poetry communicates in diciplined, conversational speech, one of its important princples. Language poetry defies this principle and goes about its work in lines that on their surface are a total mystery to the reader of free form. Lazer stands between the two antagonists like a Hercules carrying both on his shoulders adjacent to one another, seeking through contact with both the possibiltiy of creating a language that both…mehr

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Poetry. "DOUBLESPACE is a noble attempt to bridge the chasm between Language poetry and the traditional anectdotal and meditative poetry of the 'free form' mode. Free form poetry communicates in diciplined, conversational speech, one of its important princples. Language poetry defies this principle and goes about its work in lines that on their surface are a total mystery to the reader of free form. Lazer stands between the two antagonists like a Hercules carrying both on his shoulders adjacent to one another, seeking through contact with both the possibiltiy of creating a language that both may be able to draw upon, each for its own purpose. Or is he trying to say that each has its place in the armory of the modern, each with its own means of communication: the free form through linear writing and Language poetry through effects of language used consciously in opposition to the conventional. There is no question that each mode has its work to do: free form to keep the surface of life familiar yet resonant and Language poetry to uncover through indirection via rejection of the familiar surface to win a whole perspective on life and its surface, which then will cause new thinking and doing close to contemporary fragmented and outworn culture. Hank Lazer has taken upon himself in DOUBLESPACE to bring the division boldly into the open, with the two modes printed side by side under one conver. If we are able to continue to debate the issue, this then that Lazer has done is what is needed. It comes at a moment of historic change in the culture and social arrangements throughout the world"-David Ignatow.
Autorenporträt
Hank Lazer has published 12 books of poetry, most recently THE NEW SPIRIT (Singing Horse, 2005), ELEGIES & VACATIONS (Salt, 2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). He has given poetry readings and talks in the United States, Canada, China, Spain, France, and the Canary Islands. Lazer's poetry has been nominated for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the 2004 Forward Prize. With Charles Bernstein, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. His two-volume collection of essays, Opposing Poetries, was published by Northwestern University Press (1996). For the past twelve years, his essays on innovative poetry, new modes of lyricism, and representations of spiritual experience have appeared in a variety of journals, including Facture, The Boston Review, Jacket, American Poetry Review, and TALISMAN. Hank Lazer is a Professor of English at the University of Alabama where he is also an administrator serving as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs.