Description
Poetry. "This will be an exquisite book (not a corpse). Everything about it will delight the eye and please the hand.... Writing sentences of interest comes about at considerable cost. Writers tend to lie about this. 'This book just wrote itself.' Only it didn't. Hank Lazer wrote these sentences (journal entries and poems). He has written interesting sentences about all sorts of things, including sentences about sentences and a white-on-white nonsentence. He has written sentences going two (or more) ways at the same time. They're polyphonic, they're musical. If you don't buy this book and read these sentences you'll be sad. You will feel something is missing from your life. And there will be. If you buy this book, you could have an interesting enough life. It could even become musical."—John Taggart
Author Bio
Hank Lazer has published thirty-three books of poetry, including field recordings of mind in morning (2021, BlazeVOX - with 15 music-poetry tracks with Holland Hopson on banjo - available from Bandcamp), COVID 19 SUTRAS (2020, Lavender Ink), SLOWLY BECOMING AWAKE (N32) (2019, Dos Madres Press), POEMS THAT LOOK JUST LIKE POEMS (2019, PURH - one volume in English, one in French), Evidence of Being Here: Beginning in Havana (N27), (2018, Negative Capability Press), THINKING IN JEWISH (N20) (2017, Lavender Ink). Lazer has performed jazz-poetry improvisations in the US and Cuba with musicians Davey Williams, Omar Pérez, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Holland Hopson, and others. Lazer's Brush Mind books have been transformed into video installations and performances in several art gallery venues. In 2015, Lazer received Alabama's most prestigious literary prize, the Harper Lee Award, for lifetime achievement in literature. Lazer has been quarantining in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and at Duncan Farm in Carrollton, Alabama. Hank Lazer's website is: https://www.hanklazer.com
Author City: TUSCALOOSA, AL USA