Description
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Like a manual pilfered from an alternate history where science and art never diverged, Michael Leong's new book transforms the periodic table of elements into a kind of concrete poetry. Leong's glowing hieroglyphs show that the poetic Word emerges—as irony from iron—from the whirled atoms of the World itself. Indeed, Leong redefines the space-time of the page as a furnace of pure imagination, where the cadaver of modernist poetics is smelted with black humor, 'form[ing] crystals and other alloys at the boundarues of meaning. Here, we discover that 'Poetry is an ongoing reaction, a turning loose of the future.' For time doesn't exist without the possibility of revolution—and Leong has, in CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE, created a true 'chamber of possibilities.'"—Andrew Joron
Author Bio
Michael Leong was educated at Dartmouth College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Rutgers University. His books include WORDS ON EDGE (Black Square Editions, 2018), WHO UNFOLDED MY ORIGAMI BRAIN? (Fence Digital, 2018), CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE (Black Square Editions, 2012), and E.S.P. (Silenced Press, 2009). His work has appeared in The &NOW AWARDS 2: The Best Innovative Writing (Lake Forest College Press, 2013) and Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan University Press, 2018). He lives and teaches in Albany, NY.
Author City: ALBANY, NY USA