"This poetical collection, Angels the Size of Houses (70-plus
sheets of cool and frantic paginated speech) is a buzzing and
hyper-inventive set of multifarious devices, with exceptional
prosodical hazardry and multiple re-echoes along its spacious
corridors - with many doorways for we and us open to its flaring
physiological recitatives. The passage construction is familial and
domestic in tone-row, while also widely outlandish,
saltarello-style and stylish also with it. There are culinary hints
and self-displays in great lexical abundance to whet the whistle,
with phantasm and modest astonishments in witty comedy, escaping
grandeur but never remote from scalar enlargements, often wisely
gnomic, gazing out of the window at continental drift and its
markings. William Burroughs is reported to have replied, when asked
his opinion about death, 'well it's a step in the right direction',
obsequious in full funeral rigout, laburnum decor, with many choice
aromas and childhood joys. Indeed alongside outbreaks of passionate
attachment with parents and kids, the schedule is mostly immune to
current political conflagrations and their drear localisms. The
protocols display exceptional narrative candour, own-brand, also in
white, offering vagaries of choice oddity, medical and arctic in
well-tempered rational diffusion; anatomical by alternating
reduction and upfront funny by marginal exploits; work and glancing
damage on all sides, broken and 'racing to the bottom', where else.
Reading along and across these pages is unquestionable adventurism,
rapid eye movements seem to catch up with and overrun occupational
impatience, as dear reader in friendship you soon enough shall find
out." -J.H. Prynne "Every poem is a dizzy word-dazzle, a dance of
images, expressing a real life of work, babies, love and loss. Some
are shaped by word-music. Some scatter the page and the mind,
stretching poetry to its limits, and leave me wondering. No bad
thing." -Gillian Clarke "Poetry that vibrates on its own frequency,
and invites the reader into its own surreal soundscapes. Here, new
connections of language make us see the world afresh, and ask the
reader to tune in to the long-held notes of truth just beneath the
surface" -Andrew McMillan "Here, in this beautiful book, is the
poetry of the possible. With words that are 'heaven sent and
glitter prone', Aaron takes us on a journey that is as vital as it
is extravagant, urging us into the fantastic, and turning our
everyday scenes into glittering vistas. It is a collection to be
dipped into again and again, one that leaps with language, and
lends its readers fresh eyes." -Theophilus Kwek
General
Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2021 |
Authors: |
Aaron Kent
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 5mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
74 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-766-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-84861-766-6 |
Barcode: |
9781848617667 |
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