Description
Poetry. "Dialogue and uncertainty seem to be in short supply these days, but Joel Bettridge's THE PUBLIC LIFE OF CHEMISTRY aims to rehabilitate them. A series of letters to and from poet friends structures his book and creates an approach to knowledge that is less information than in formation. Quantum theory teaches that there is only relation. THE PUBLIC LIFE OF CHEMISTRY seeks to demonstrate this in both its form and content, while not ignoring the modern age's legacy of violence. "—Alan Gilbert
Author Bio
Joel Bettridge is the author of four books of poetry: LIGATURES (Dos Madres Press, 2019), THE PUBLIC LIFE OF CHEMISTRY (The Cultural Society, 2018), PRESOCRATIC BLUES (Chax Press, 2009), and THAT ABRUPT HERE (The Cultural Society, 2007). He is also the author of the two critical studies Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics (Routledge, 2018) and Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith (Palgrave, 2009). He co-edited, with Eric Selinger, Ronald Johnson: Life and Works (The National Poetry Foundation, 2008). He is Professor of English at Portland State University.
Author City: PORTLAND, OR USA