James Wagner - Pegasus Books - 6.2.07

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On Trilce: “Titling his book Trilce, James Wagner calls attention to the fact that he used the sound structure of Vallejo’s poems as his matrix—a process that has sometimes been called homonymic (or surface) translation and that Wagner called “auralgraph” in his earlier book, the false sun recordings. It is a form at least as demanding as rhyme & meter and, at this point in history, more likely to generate interesting work. But, as with any form, all depends on what you do with it. James Wagner does a lot.” —Rosmarie Waldrop On the false sun recordings: “At a time of extraordinary displacement and global confusion, these insistently sane poems manage a remarkable interaction of viable realities, of multiple twists, turns and provisions of language's singular instrument, syntax, and the words which it puts in order. Each turn here is a possibility, an endlessly refracting multiplicity of instances. Each word takes its own step, as it must, toward recognition.” —Robert Creeley