Poetry. "To 'adapt.' To deflect 'entities.' To 'autocue.' Travis Macdonald's book of predictions possesses a playful and dark momentum. Questions of 'trembling' and 'submerged' experience mix with a joy in production that takes a body where it does not, at first, want to go: towards a 'sense.' Or: 'bonus.' Or: 'blaze.' But whose body is burning up? And what do you see where the fire 'ebbs'? This is a book written from a spirited and volatile unconscious. Read it when it's raining, or at night, or with your eyes completely closed"—Bhanu Kapil.
Author City: SANTA FE, NM USA
Travis Macdonald's poetry and prose has appeared in print and online journals internationally. His first full-length collection, an erasure of "The 9/11 Commission Report" titled The O Mission Repo [vol. 1] was released in 2008 by Fact-Simile Editions. An ebook of his experimental translations, Basho's Phonebook, is available from E-ratio (www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com). He currently lives, works and writes from Santa Fe, NM.
Reviews and Other Links
Charles Freeland @ Tarpaulink Sky Reviews
Travis Cebula @ Monkey Puzzle
Matt Reeck @ Jacket2
“Prophesy much? Every single prediction in Travis Macdonald’s neo-Oulipian horologue N7OSTRADAMUS is guaranteed to come true in some possible language game for some possible community of language users—or you get your Mongoloid back, ten centenarians on the dolt.”
—K. Silem Mohammad
“Travis Macdonald has herein saddled up the old Oulipian warhorse, N+7, in order to expose it as the perpetual filly it is. Fine linguistic leapings, lovely literary gambolings—‘the functions, firecracker from the slacker’—abound. Long dead Nostradamus, who saw all these centuries, gets fresh eyes here: ours.”
—Laird Hunt