Transfixion

By Bill Lavender
Published by Garrett County Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

"Writing in tongues." — Pierre Joris

Bill Lavender's sixth book continues the investigations of identity and community, language and reality, begun in the earlier books. Andrei Codrescu says brings to fruition processes and forms only hinted at previously. Endorsed by Andrei Codrescu and other vital members of the American poetry community, the book resolutely finds its own way through the current poetic fashions. The language is fresh, the insights compelling— what Pierre Joris calls "writing in tongues..."

About The Author

Bill Lavender

Bill Lavender is a poet, editor, and teacher at the University of New Orleans. He grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas but has spent most of his adult life in New Orleans. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including I of the Storm, which includes passages on the Katrina disaster, and an innovative book of short poems, While Sleeping. He also edited the ground-breaking anthology, Another South: Experimental Writing in the South, from University of Alabama Press. His poems and stories have appeared in dozens of print and web journals and anthologies, and his essays and theoretical writings have been published in Contemporary Literature and Poetics Today, among others.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Garrett County Press (May 16, 2010)
  • Length: 120 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781891053115

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Raves and Reviews

"Bill Lavender deploys here the weapon he’s hesitated to use until now: the 'I,' in its most bitter-sweet reflexive lethal mode. The barrel is pointed at a mercilessly dissected self that it fires at with compassion and a wealth of sportive detail. This book is an amazingly beautiful collection of (self) hunting notes."

– Andrei Codrescu, Author of No Dog

"Transfixion might seem a linear development: a new book from an accomplished poet, critic, editor and book designer. But this important new work is a lateral expansion. Lavender's books have always had a way of enlarging our notion of poetry—widening the field where poiesis is played. But here we are indeed transfixed."

– Peter Thompson, Author of Harrison's World

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Transfixion

By Bill Lavender
Published by Garrett County Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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