Description
Poetry. Through its sparse yet expansive lyricism, this book enacts "a complex gestural nest," where thought is created in the spaces between poets and philosophers (Stein, Dante, Heidegger) and visual artists (Agnes Martin, the Gee's Bend quilters). This intertextuality bares the poem to its historical tendons, where a taxidermied swallow may thrive as a bottled ship. The poet's work is questioned and affirmed as song that exists "at the center of incredible volume."
Author Bio
David Mutschlecner is the author of four books from Ahsahta Press: ESSE, SIGN, ENIGMA AND LIGHT, and ICON. He is interested in theopoetics, in which the poetic imagination breathes new life into philosophical theology. In 2011 he received an award from the Fund for Poetry. His first book of prose, Poetic Faith, was published by Lune Press in 2016. He lives and works in New Mexico.
Author City: LOS ALAMOS, NM USA