Description
Poetry. "This is a book I had to struggle my way through. Often I wondered, what is going on here? Slowly it dawned on me: Jared Schickling has devised a poetics that operates like an ecology. It is, among other qualities, indifferent to whether I understand it or not—and the poems are no more concerned with what you or I think of them than rocks, moss, lichen, yucca plants, or clouds care whether you admire their shapes or scrape your knee on their sharp edges. I respect that. It's tough, bracing, and worth the effort. It may take years to catch up to where these poems are taking us."—Andrew Schelling
Author Bio
Jared Schickling is the author of several BlazeVOX books, including THE MERCURY POEM (2017), the trilogy THE PINK + ATBOALGFPOPASASBIFL: IRRITATIONS, EXCREMENT & WIPES + TWO BOOKS ON THE GAS: ABOVE THE SHALE AND ACHEIVED BY KISSING (2013-15) and PROVINCE OF NUMB ERRS (2016), as well as The Paranoid Reader: Essays, 2006-2012 (Furniture Press, 2014); the chapbooks Prospectus for a Stage (LRL Textile Series, 2013) and A Packet of Food (Omnia Vanitas Review, 2013); two Trump Locofo chaps, Donald Trump and the Pocket Oracle and Donald Trump in North Korea (Moria, 2017); and he edited A Lyrebird: Selected Poems of Michael Farrell (BlazeVOX, 2017). His most recent book is THE MERCURY POEM (BlazeVOX, 2017) He lives in Western New York and edits Delete Press and The Mute Canary, publishers of poetry.
Author City: LOCKPORT, NY USA