Texas Blind Salamander Feelings by Will Alexander PRE-ORDER
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Will Alexander's Texas Blind Salamander Feelings is an uncompromising torrent of language, charged with a luminous intensity that refuses containment. Resurrected from decades of obscurity, the collection pulses with cosmic, geological, and metaphysical currents, its lexicon forged in the fusion of the surreal and the elemental. Alexander's voice moves through dimensions of perception, casting hallucinatory images that shift between scientific precision and mystical revelation. This is poetry as pure incantation, a text that vibrates with the energy of an unseen world, both cryptic and inexhaustibly expansive. Will Alexander was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He received a BA in English and creative writing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. Alexander published his first poetry collection, Vertical Rainbow Climber (Jazz Press), in 1987. He went on to publish numerous books of poetry, including Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten (New Directions, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Kaleidoscopic Omniscience (Skylight Press, 2013); The Sri Lankan Loxodrome (New Directions, 2009); and Asia & Haiti (Sun & Moon Press, 1995). Also known for his essays, plays, and nonfiction, he is the author of Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture 1991–2007 (Essay Press, 2013), winner of an American Book Award. In 2016, Alexander received the Jackson Poetry Prize awarded by Poets & Writers; the judges' citation notes, "It is tempting to label Alexander a surrealist or experimentalist, but he is truly a singular voice. Ultimately, his poetry is rooted in a belief in the transformative powers of language.†Alexander is also the recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship, a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and a Whiting Fellowship, among many others. He has taught at several universities, including Hofstra University, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the University of California, San Diego. He lives in California.
Will Alexander's Texas Blind Salamander Feelings is an uncompromising torrent of language, charged with a luminous intensity that refuses containment. Resurrected from decades of obscurity, the collection pulses with cosmic, geological, and metaphysical currents, its lexicon forged in the fusion of the surreal and the elemental. Alexander's voice moves through dimensions of perception, casting hallucinatory images that shift between scientific precision and mystical revelation. This is poetry as pure incantation, a text that vibrates with the energy of an unseen world, both cryptic and inexhaustibly expansive. Will Alexander was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He received a BA in English and creative writing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. Alexander published his first poetry collection, Vertical Rainbow Climber (Jazz Press), in 1987. He went on to publish numerous books of poetry, including Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten (New Directions, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Kaleidoscopic Omniscience (Skylight Press, 2013); The Sri Lankan Loxodrome (New Directions, 2009); and Asia & Haiti (Sun & Moon Press, 1995). Also known for his essays, plays, and nonfiction, he is the author of Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture 1991–2007 (Essay Press, 2013), winner of an American Book Award. In 2016, Alexander received the Jackson Poetry Prize awarded by Poets & Writers; the judges' citation notes, "It is tempting to label Alexander a surrealist or experimentalist, but he is truly a singular voice. Ultimately, his poetry is rooted in a belief in the transformative powers of language.†Alexander is also the recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship, a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and a Whiting Fellowship, among many others. He has taught at several universities, including Hofstra University, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the University of California, San Diego. He lives in California.
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