Description
Poetry. Art. "Kyle Schlesinger has always written the kinds of poems I want as conversations with the world. I mean, Jesus Christ, look at who he dedicates this book to! Right there is the dinner party for A NEW KIND OF COUNTRY, and I want to be there, even if I have to sit at the kids' table! Read this book, and like me, start all over again! You will ask, as the poet does, 'Which way is America / Sound not a word / Which way is America' and you will listen for it."—CA Conrad
"Kyle Schlesinger's poems and prose texts speak in a voice that gets beneath the skin of these times, pointing us in and beyond ourselves. 'The words are in the body / The body is in the mind' he tells us. And 'What's on television' he asks, then admits 'Just another hallucination.' Green light and pink lighting permeate this work. 'You wouldn't believe it / If I told you / That I was where / You thought you were / When we heard the news.' We need these words of Kyle's to help us shoulder that news—'fake and otherwise—aimed at us each day. The two-line poem, 'Split,' is worth quoting in full: 'We were / Now we're.' And poems such as 'It's a Freak Out' deliver a sophisticated humor. A wholly original book."—Margaret Randall
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