Description
Poetry. "PARTS OF SPEECH ventriloquizes even as it amputates clichés and idiomatic expressions, where the cumulative effect is more exhilarating than terrifying, due in part to this book's underlying architectonics. Overheard conversations, radio broadcasts, film titles, allusions and elisions swirl about one another. Enjambments snowball into a torrent of clauses, refusing disambiguation. Blues and jazz repetition and refrain slide into monomania. Schlesinger's darkly humorous collage of Americana evokes an other-reflexive strategy and an obtuse coherence: 'Art is serious // Enough already / There is no point / In taking it / Too seriously / Seriously.'"—Tyrone Williams
"A deadpan ode to American speech, the poems in this collection take fresh bites out of Capitalism's hide. PARTS OF SPEECH defines a generation's disillusionment in a post-Occupy world."—Brenda Coultas
Author Bio
Kyle Schlesinger is a poet, printer, and professor. He is the author of A POETICS OF THE PRESS: INTERVIEWS WITH POETS, PRINTERS, & PUBLISHERS, A NEW KIND OF COUNTRY, Vast Acid West (with Crane Giamo), Swish Void (with Grant Cross), Sydney Omarr's Wild Children (with Flynn Maria Bergann), Keep the Change (with Deborah Poe), PARTS OF SPEECH, Commonplace, and other books. Scholarly works include THREADS TALK (with Steve Clay) and Poems & Pictures. He is the proprietor of Cuneiform Press and Director of the Graduate Publishing Program at UHV.
Author City: AUSTIN, TX USA