The coming mental range / Will Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Will, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Genre:

Essays

Essays.

Physical Description:

i, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Litmus Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The Coming Mental Range brings readers deep into the revolutionary poetics and philosophy of multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and musician Will Alexander. Gathering together a group of Alexander's short prose writings in his signature "vertical philosophy" with essays in poetics touching on the work of admired artists and poets (Byron Baker, Wanda Coleman, Pablo Jofré, Bob Kaufman and Ghérasim Luca to name a few), in addition to several key interviews with the author, The Coming Mental Range serves as a critical introduction to Alexander's work and thought and as a companion to volumes in poetry and philosophy like Asia & Haiti (Green Integer, 1995), Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (O Books, 1998), Compression & Purity (City Lights, 2011), and Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021). In The Coming Mental Range, "language crystallizes as imaginal blazing, as musical incandescence," and we are swept along in its roaring tides to other shores. As Alexander writes, "What is most concerning language must never fail at convincing, at emancipating its readership via transgressive spiral.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Litmus Press"

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781933959528

1933959525

OCLC:

1267402820

Publisher Number:

99994769385