Andrew Joron

Poem of the Week: Andrew Joron

by Christopher Phelps May 17, 2012 The Other

Assumption, The Climb, the Premise, the— What drama _____of the size of signs, of sighs Seized at zero. A dry soul is best _____because combustible— But to stand _____beyond witness, burying the sun _____or else writing fire _____along a circumference of unclosing —this is my faith & my reason. I enter history As a secret [...]

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mUutations: Louis Simpson

by Brooks Lampe December 12, 2011 The Other

Warning: mUutations are a project from my other site, . They are arbitrary interpretive readings that change the poems into something they’re not. Proceed at your own risk. The Dog in the Garage The dog in the garage, The hound that wanders around Snapping at flies, with an infected ear — Suddenly starts to run [...]

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Surrealism Re-Imagined

by Brooks Lampe October 11, 2010 Language

Brooks Lampe reviews Andrew Joron’s What a desperate trance!—The skyboat resembles a flying vulva; the city, the arc of an abandoned soliloquy. Andrew Joron represents a small, almost indistinguishable enclave of contemporary poets who know (and appreciate that) they have been influenced by surrealism. Versus the rest of the contemporary poets who do not know [...]

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