Poetry. In this ongoing version or "writing through" Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, of which this edition presents "Books One & Two," Paul Naylor brings a contemporary sensibility to the classical poets weave of words, de- and reconstructing meaning by erasure and rearrangement. In accordance with the epigraph from Lucretius, "And so the atoms swerve a little -- they must... ," Naylor's text is both scintillatingly atomized and respectful of its source: "To proceed / we perceive / each point remains / minimal / and is / something else / after / crowded order / since they / cling no force can pry them free."

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JAMMED TRANSMISSION is Paul Naylor's third full-length book of poetry, following PLAYING WELL WITH OTHERS (2004) and ARRANGING NATURE (2006). He is also the author of Poetic Investigations: Singing the Holes in History (1999), a study of five contemporary poets, including Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Lyn Hejinian and Kamau Brathwaite. A recovering academic, Naylor lives in San Diego, California, where he directs Singing Horse Press.