Poetry. Kristin Prevallet's SHADOW EVIDENCE INTELLIGENCE, the latest volume in the Factory School's Heretical Texts series, presents poems emerging from the shadows of both literary and recent political history into a light all their own. Composed of what the poet calls "formal disruptions" and "(dis)homages to form", these experimental mergers between visual and poetic forms are deeply engaged with contemporary political and social reality. Evoking Bahktin's idea of universal addressivity - "Each thinks that he or she is/ an independent entity, floating in a circular/ bubble high above the concerns of politics and/ economy.// No one can escape being implicated in the/ flow: this is the difficulty of poetry" - Prevallet shows us that at its finest, poetry is anything but escapist.

Kristin Prevallet (born in 1966 in Denver) is an American poet and essayist who currently lives and works in New York City. Prevallet studied with Robert Creeley at SUNY Buffalo and has described herself as working in the tradition of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson and the ongoing stream of American high modernists. In recent years, she has appeared regularly at the Bowery Poetry Club, the venue which defined the New York downtown poetry scene in the late 90s and early 00s. In her academic life, she has taught at Bard College, The New School for Social Research, and currently at St. John's University in Queens. She has also lectured and performed frequently at the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University (formerly The Naropa Institute) in Boulder, Colorado.

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