Trance Archive
New and Selected Poems
Format:Paperback
Publisher:City Lights Books
Published:15th Apr '10
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Academic: The book has much potential course adoption through the poetry professor circuit, as Joron's work has begun to command such attention. The book's editor is in contact with many poetry professors who would be interested in teaching it: Cal Bedient, Andrew Zawacki, Joshua Clover, David Lau, and others. AWP, MLA, CBSD's Poetry & Lit Catalog. Print: Approach various literary journals, Rain Taxi, Village Voice, Poets and Writers, Bloomsbury Review, Poetry Flash, American Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Poetry Project Newsletter, SF Bay Guardian, SF Chronicle, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Bookforum Web: completereview.com, conversationalreading.com, poems.com (Poetry Daily), Slate, Salon Event: St. Mark's Poetry Project, University of Iowa Creative Writing reading series, University of British Columbia Creative Writing Program reading series
Like a chance encounter between Einstein and Breton, Trance Archive embraces philosophy, science, and surrealism.Since his post-9/11 essay "The Emergency," Andrew Joron has been regarded as one of American poetry's most profound practitioners. Trance Archive draws on over twenty years of Joron's work, from his early science fiction poetry to his later fusion of surrealist romanticism and avant-garde materialism, into what he calls "speculative lyric." Infused with radical politics, Joron's poetry takes inspiration from chaos and complexity theory, and reflects personal associations ranging from anarchist philosopher Paul Feyerabend to surrealist mystic Philip Lamantia. The third volume in our vbrant Spotlight series, Trance Archive affirms Joron's place among major contemporary poets.
"Earlier in his career, Andrew Joron was known for writing poetry for science fiction magazines, finding ways to integrate poetic avant-garde techniques with the genre. 'Science Fiction' is perhaps his last collection that directly experiments with the genre before he began to focus on how poetics should be more involved with current political situations."-Cathy Park Hong "Joron's [prose poems] are characteristically impeccable, lapidary, sublime... Joron is among the most uncompromising, far-reaching, and underappreciated poets writing today."-Publishers Weekly "In just the fourth month of this new year, I can absolutely guarantee that this will be one of the most cherished books, most agile of lyric wonders, by the end of it." --Esther Press "An anthology of [Joron's] work from his best to his rarest, to others, anyone who wants an introduction to Joron's work would do well with Trance Archive, a top pick for poetry collections." --The Midwest Book Review "If the densely covered sheets of what I'm tempted to call [Alice] Notley's 'trance-scriptions'were reduced to their barest minimum, the distillate might be the kind of poem found in Andrew Joron's Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems." --The Nation "Joron is one of the few poets who has identified and embraced the possibility for surrealism and Language poetry to coexist in productive synergy... [He] pioneers a unique hybrid 'genre' of surrealism and science fiction ... Whether the surrealist project was abandoned ('destroyed') or never fully realized ('not-yet-invented'), Joron's work ambitiously attempts to resuscitate it by merging it with the 21st century version of Marxist poetry and making it relevant to post-structuralism." --The Poetry Blog "Joron's fascinations have itched and procreated through a poetic career, which Trance Archive celebrates. They are fascinating, entrancing."-- Poetry Flash
ISBN: 9780872865303
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 141g
120 pages