Description
Poetry. "Is poetry alive? It is part of the human body and seems to look like the human mind. But it is almost never as lively, voluptuous, dancing as these poems of Nada Gordon. She seems to be using her own dictionary and idiolect and innocence. Her work is a cadenza ad lib and seems unflawed as a Bollywood movie unfolds with increasing intensity. This is some of the freshest work of her generation: she helps create the new comedy, where jokes are not needed to be happy. She has what a painter once told me was absolutely necessary: shamelessness. This is like rock and roll from another planet for another time"—David Shapiro.
Author Bio
Nada Gordon is a poet was born in Oakland and lives in Brooklyn. She is the author of nine books: foriegnn bodie, Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, V. Imp., Swoon, Folly, Scented Rushes, Vile Lilt, Selected Poems: The Sound Princess, and Emotional Support Peacock. Although she is a multimodal artist, she doesn't work "at the intersection" of anything; if she did, she would have become a crossing guard. She is a founding member of the notorious and glorious Flarf Collective and has been widely anthologized. Her work has been translated into French, Japanese, Dutch, Romanian, Chinese, Hebrew, and Burmese.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA