Essay. Tod Thilleman's BLANK VERSE is a Polemic addressing contemporary expressionist/activist writing. The central tenet of this strange, yet apropos, appraisal of American Poetry shifts away from lexical attributes of structure and places emphasis on the necessary difficulty of a visionary tradition. Without the quantitative poetry suffers and becomes not only ignored, but what is more dangerous, completely embedded in the Culture (from BLANK VERSE).

Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA

Tod Thilleman moved to New York at the age of 18 and worked for a brief period with Pace Editions. He is the author of numerous poetry collections—including A WORLD OF NOTHING BUT SELF-INFLICTION: A FOUR-PART INFLECTION (TWICE TOLD), THREE SEA MONSTERS, ROOT-CELLAR TO RIVERINE, BREATHING, THREE MOUTHS, BLANK VERSE, and ENTELECHY—and the novel GOWANUS CANAL, HANS KNUDSEN. From 1991-1999 he was editor of Poetry New York: a journal of poetry & translation.