{"product_id":"how-to-build-a-universe-that-doesnt-fall-apart-two-days-later-copia","title":"Charismatic Spiral","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCharismatic Spirals\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis for an America circa 2024, where poetry—the art of developing new means of speaking—has never been of such artistic, technological and political consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-7 col-md-8 col-resume\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003eAn archetypal outsider, Will Alexander released his first poetry collection aged forty-four while working at the Los Angeles Lakers' ticket office. Three decades on, he has ascended to the legendary status of the city's great living surrealist, existing, as Eliot Weinberger wrote, in a state of \"imaginal hyperdrive,\" with forty such collections to his name.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eOperating at the edge of language, Alexander deploys words in a way that feels prophetic—human psyches synthesize with technological artifacts; atoms and archetypes collide; bodies are vacated, voices are newly incarnated. His America—like\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lespressesdureel.com\/EN\/auteur.php?id=5713\"\u003eGlissant\u003c\/a\u003e's—is multinational and—like\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lespressesdureel.com\/EN\/auteur.php?id=5711\"\u003eCoover\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lespressesdureel.com\/EN\/auteur.php?id=5712\"\u003eSpiegelman\u003c\/a\u003e's—multivalent and symbolically unstable. That is to say, he belongs to an America circa 2024, where poetry—the art of developing new means of speaking—has never been of such artistic, technological, and political consequence.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn doing so, Alexander draws from a vast array of influences, from luminaries like Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lespressesdureel.com\/EN\/auteur.php?id=3389\"\u003eAntonin Artaud\u003c\/a\u003e, and Philip Lamantia, to holistic visions such as Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga, the Mayan numerical system, and Cheikh Anta Diop's perspectives on ancient Egypt. In a preview of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCharismatic Spirals\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Anne Boyer captured the essence of his work: \"visionary poetry [that] achieves its effect through sound, not image...Cadence [that] can shatter us, set the world ablaze.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eRead it syllabically, surf it quickly—there is no single way to approach this work.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003eWill Alexander (born 1948 in Los Angeles) is an artist, philosopher, poet, novelist, essayist and pianist.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ISOLARII","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49338696302934,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/files\/Tavoladadisegno1_e60189f2-2e2a-4040-af92-dd0c6c786843.png?v=1732204028","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/products\/how-to-build-a-universe-that-doesnt-fall-apart-two-days-later-copia","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}