Will Alexander - SPD Open House - 4.14.07

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"If it is an oddly futuristic arcana that Will Alexander invokes in his poetry and prose, it is at the same time the most familiar form of defamiliarization. Looking into the drawings that often accompany his texts, those scorings of his "Mime Tornadoes" and "Psychotropic Squalls", often produces the same sort of vertigo felt when looking into deepest space through the most advanced of telescopic technologies. Our sense of being at the edge of the new is tempered by our knowledge that the light reaching us images ancient events. Alexander's science is a fiction that presents us with ancient evenings reflected in "a mirror of scratch paper sonnets" (Stratospheric 33)." --Aldon Lynn Nielsen on Will Alexander's "Transmundane Specific." Books by Will Alexander include Vertical Rainbow Climber (Jazz Press, 1987); Archane Lavender Morals (Leave Books, 1994); The Stratospheric Canticles (Pantograph Press 1995); Asia & Haiti (Sun & Moon Press, 1995); Above the Human Nerve Domain (Pavement Saw Press, 1998); Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (O Books, 1998). Biographies of Will Alexander can be found at The Poetry Foundation and Green Integer.