Alchemy of Species: on Will Alexander’s The Coming Mental Range
For Will Alexander, philosophy “means inquiry into the broadest view, into the most encompassing range, taking into account the known and what is considered to be the unknown.” This malleable and generous approach is also what animates the writer’s poetics, defined by the understanding that “poetry is aboriginal utterance.” The convergence of these two principals […]
Nicole Trigg reviews Mary Burger’s Then Go On for Jacket2
In her new book Then Go On, Mary Burger explores how to occupy space and time with language and thought, how to expand the self, transgressing its borders, how to exhaust thought, how to suspend time and the self, and how to exceed language with itself. Read Review on Jacket2