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An exciting new collection of prose poetry from an emerging talent, Noah Eli Gordon's Novel Pictorial Noise was a winner of the 2006 National Poetry Series Open Competition, selected by esteemed poet John Ashbery. For over twenty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.
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Starred Review. The prolific Gordon here takes his cues from Ashbery—who picked this collection for the National Poetry Series—but also from poets ranging from Rilke to Peter Gizzi. In alternating pages of prose and spare verse lines, he plays freely in the realm between theory and lyric: Sculpture seeks articulation of the air around it. Thus, a heron thrusting overhead mutes modernism. Each of the 50 one-paragraph prose poems starts with a proposition and then attempts to both follow through on its initial lunge and also force the reader off the most obvious trails of thought, usually by tossing in a few surprises: an Ajax bottle, Alice Neel, a dab of wisteria and a strip of duct tape make appearances in two lines of one poem. Gordon closes each poem with an artfully clumsy rhyming couplet—One packs in what one can, as the real point of art is the subtle reiteration of the is, ain't it? The way I see it, we're all partially tainted—alternately lending irony and vulnerability. While this is a difficult book steeped in canonical and postmodern poetic traditions—meaning it won't appeal to everyone—it's packed with thrills and discoveries that might engender some discussion. (Sept.)
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Noah Eli Gordon's poems take the form of jotted notes in an artist's notebook (I was reminded in particular of Odilon Redon's). Each day one begins anew to weave the web, having moved a step forward (or sometimes backward) since yesterday's attempt. Thus each prose bloc, modified or modulated by the ghostly fragments that interleave them, sharpens the focus by which he "attempt[s] via the unknown to give grammar a purpose." The effort in itself is its own reward, and a prodigal one.
--John Ashbery
"what Gordon has done is nothing less than to make simultaneously visible and audible the spark within all metaphor: The pages literally confront you with material that does not belong together, forcing you to find new connections, and even to discern possible alternate fragments that could be explored.There's a crazed bidirectional temporality at work:Words and phrases from paragraphs you've not yet read coruscate through the one you're currently reading, yielding an impossible exploding of language that seems to come-simultaneously in anticipation and in retrospect-from the future."-Bookslut
--John Ashbery
"what Gordon has done is nothing less than to make simultaneously visible and audible the spark within all metaphor: The pages literally confront you with material that does not belong together, forcing you to find new connections, and even to discern possible alternate fragments that could be explored.There's a crazed bidirectional temporality at work:Words and phrases from paragraphs you've not yet read coruscate through the one you're currently reading, yielding an impossible exploding of language that seems to come-simultaneously in anticipation and in retrospect-from the future."-Bookslut
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