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Charismatic Spirals

Will Alexander - Charismatic Spirals
Charismatic Spirals s'adresse à une Amérique circa 2024, où la poésie – l'art de développer de nouveaux moyens de parler – n'a jamais eu autant de conséquences artistiques, technologiques et politiques.
An archetypal outsider, Will Alexander released his first poetry collection aged forty-four while working at the Los Angeles Lakers' ticket office. Three decades on, he has ascended to the legendary status of the city's great living surrealist, existing, as Eliot Weinberger wrote, in a state of "imaginal hyperdrive," with forty such collections to his name.
Operating at the edge of language, Alexander deploys words in a way that feels prophetic—human psyches synthesize with technological artifacts; atoms and archetypes collide; bodies are vacated, voices are newly incarnated. His America—like Glissant's—is multinational and—like Coover and Spiegelman's—multivalent and symbolically unstable. That is to say, he belongs to an America circa 2024, where poetry—the art of developing new means of speaking—has never been of such artistic, technological, and political consequence.
In doing so, Alexander draws from a vast array of influences, from luminaries like Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to holistic visions such as Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga, the Mayan numerical system, and Cheikh Anta Diop's perspectives on ancient Egypt. In a preview of
Charismatic Spirals in the New York Times, Anne Boyer captured the essence of his work: "visionary poetry [that] achieves its effect through sound, not image...Cadence [that] can shatter us, set the world ablaze."
Read it syllabically, surf it quickly—there is no single way to approach this work.
Will Alexander (né en 1948 à Los Angeles) est un artiste, philosophe, poète, romancier, essayiste et pianiste afro-américain.
 
paru en novembre 2023
édition anglaise
7 x 11 cm (broché)
204 pages
 
19.95
 
ISBN : 978-1-7350750-4-4
EAN : 9781735075044
 
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Charismatic Spirals
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