Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Great Regulars: Ammiel Alcalay's "'neither wit nor gold' (from then),"

published this year by Ugly Duckling Presse, is precisely this sort of experiment. It contains not just poems, but also a collection of photographs, newspaper cut-outs and posters, as well as, most crucially, scans of handwritten drafts and sketches from the author's archives of the early-to-mid 1970s. These elements aren't linked in an easy logical manner or sequenced in any discernible way. Yet, their ordering appears entirely organic.

from Forward: The Arty Semite: Beyond Poetry: Ammiel Alcalay

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