Full Description
Leans is the condition experienced by a jet pilot as he leaves the Earth's gravity. The book brings together four chapter-books and the remaining poetry that completes the poet's twenty-three-year project Gravity as a consequence of shape started in 1982. The earlier two volumes were Gravity and Entanglement, published in 2004 and 2005. The work includes brief and clear descriptions of scientific vocabulary along with poetry that demonstrates enjambment and transformations of poetry derived from collage practice or a practice that uses more than occasion to inform the work all at once in the same place. The poetry continues and extends the poet's concern for how we know anything and what vocabulary humans use to describe it. The texts therefore draw on unusual as well as straightforward words to achieve a rich range from blend to disruption. This encourages the reader's confidence but also provides many instances of surprise.
Contents
SOFTSTONE
Over The Top
Olbolo
Oleke
Palmer House
Papa Doc Walk
Pasmala
Pecking
Planetary Bow
Plasma
Plasmaphase
Proto-Cyclotron
Quasar
Radio
Radio Jet
Radio Window
Remote-Sensing
Shuffle
SINGULARITY STEREO
Singularity
The Giant Slits
Sloopy
Slop
Snake Hips
Josep Soler
Spinor
Stamping Sequence
Stereo-Receiver
STROLL & STRUT STEP
Stroll
Strut Step
SHEDBOX
Ostranenie
Palais
Pin-Cushion
Slow Drag
Sway Back
Swim
Trucking
Turkey Trot
Twist
Twisted Camel
Underbelly Jump
Yanayallow
Subsequent Looping
Suzy Q
Then Learning
Torus
Viscosity
Zig-Zag
MEZZ MERROUND
