Winner of the Del Sol Press 2005 Poetry Prize, David Ray Vance's
poetry collection combines science and art gloriously. Mary Jo
Bang, the Prize Judge, has this to say about VITREOUS: "Part
rewritten 1934 medical text, part Keatsian reflection, this is the
logical offspring of the long-awaited meeting of science and art; a
marriage of equals where each half maintains its primary
allegiance: the poetic to the common lyrical language of emotion
and memory, the medical to its narrowly appropriated lexicon of
intraocular, cornea, and Placido's disc. Mr. Vance has woven these
two competing word streams into a meditation on sight and risk.
Think of it as an item in the cupboard of the scientifically
sublime. Think of Ronald Johnson's ARK. VITREOUS is utterly
fascinating in its reach, and exquisitely tender. And important,
because it answers again today's recurrent question, Can form be
further broken and still be a poem? The answer (of course) is yes."
* "The Korean character for "citizen" is based upon the image of an
eye pierced by an arrow. The citizen, thus, is one whose vision has
been wounded by the state; how can we see clearly when we're in the
midst, in the thick of things? David Ray Vance's startling and
rewarding debut is a kind of exhibition--a virtual museum of poetic
and found texts--concerned with the vulnerability of the eye, the
I's aperture, the world's window, the self's permeable edge."
--Mark Doty "VITREOUS dazzles in the way the first pictures of the
earth must have dazzled. This amazing collection exists in the vast
distance between the body and the body perceived. Each poem makes
alien both the form and function of our most essential organs
through its innateunderstanding that we will succumb as easily to
pollutants as we do to that caressing hand on our cheek. David Ray
Vance, in this stunning book, offers a clinical yet intimate look
at our modes of perceiving our haunting and vulnerable
physicality." --Claudia Rankine
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