Jim Leftwich
CONTAINERS PROJECTING MULTITUDES:
Expositions on Th Poetry of John M. Bennett
Jim Leftwich takes on the enigmatic, complex poetry of John M. Bennett in a series of explorations of Bennett's books. Leftwich, a poet, is an authority on Bennett's ways of writing. His expositions include essay-like discussions, close readings of individual poems and lines, and glosses, hacks, and re-writings of Bennett's texts. The re-writings create new poems and are ways in which Leftwich inhabits and/or illuminates the originals. At each chapter's end, there is an email exchange between the two, discussing or clarifying aspects of the preceding exposition. The book is a fascinating journey toward the heart of a unique poet, whose work is generally impossible to approach using standard critical methodologies. This is a great opportunity to examine not only the mysteries of John M. Bennett's poetry under the sharp magnification of the mind of Jim Leftwich, but a way to engage with Leftwich's remarkable work as a poet and thinker about poetry.
281 pp.
ISBN 9781938521546
$20
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two ladders opposed to a similar molecular weight, light at the source of a resemblance to meaning freewheeling devices snorted
and capsized and downruled beyond the fierce of echo
OK stops a sop to plunge milk back into its doughnut, hole a , fuse relicts of a zombie in noontime decay which is language at its worsted suite a best refitting of shoes on the wrong feet or tooth in its dreamy , monsters from the Id
which is the two of these bustards wingless floating in a black sun sky, to die!
can you picture a tongue in its jail-slot, or nose quivering with green-sea snot slobbering lips to kiss a void and then, some a while back in the illustrated century of typescript a disease called man, the soul an arcane penny whistle and soot and rusting hieroglyphs in neo-cryptic mayan
say this is a critique of a series of beaks beech books beakers pamphlets dow jones reports about the loss of poetry in the twenty figged century, scalpel and boot in hand and a device much like a micrometer ready to blow sky , high ! "Visual poems are scattered throughout the book." un hunh you bet
looking more like a hat with eyes Bennett puzzles over what Leftwich left undiscovered a rock mired in its own detritus unable to move from the literary socket until at first , of course , residual drizzle bloating the ham sandwich yesterday's lunch in a daze of calendar switches which makes every Tuesday a blasphemy
structure and determination
to be read while coughing socks
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