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Poetry. All too aware of language's inability to reveal real answers or to calm the cold and hard world we inhabit, in JARGON Brian Clements nonetheless revels in the places where we settle into language's sly do-overs, into meaning--communication, identity, the making of art, religion and its replacements, each other--hoping to emerge from the dark places of the universe (e quindi uscimmo) to see again sunlight. The prose poems in JARGON are haunted by the ghosts of form, rhetoric, narrative, argument--the cultural forms that make the world familiar yet tend to abandon us when we need them most (such as in times of war, or in times of economic collapse). Like its prequel, AND HOW TO END IT (Quale Press, 2009), this book seems to rise ab nihilo in search of a beginning and an end--a cause and a purpose.
About the author
Brian Clements is the author of three Quale Press titles: AND HOW TO END IT (2008), its sequel, JARGON (2010), and, most recently, A BOOK OF COMMON RITUALS (2014). He edited with Jamey Dunham the anthology AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE POEM (Firewheel Editions, 2009), and he founded/edited SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS. He is Professor of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Process at Western Connecticut State University, where he coordinates the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing and advises the literary journal Poor Yorick (http: //pooryorickjournal.com).
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