'I think the necessity of poetry is to irritate, to evoke the
uncomfortable response. Scraps of language from different places
and registers-radio, tv, conversations, lawyer-speak, etc. coalesce
and collide, creating meaning from their juxtaposition, meaning
that is not subject to control or definition but (among other
things including just being what it is) questions the rules by
which we are obliged to live, like grammar, syntax, meaning. Look
in vain for (linear) narrative, for anecdote, for epiphanies, for
messages, for making-the world-a-better-place: the world is a mess
and language is messy and the world is language and any attempt to
tidy it up with poetry is falsification. There is no utopian
vision-utopias tend to end in concentration camps and piles of
skulls. Putting the poem into something resembling conventional
form is thus supremely ironic - (Catherine Hales). This book is the
first full-length collection by Catherine Hales.
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