Serge Gavronsky
ANDORTHE: Poems Within a Poem

Talisman House, Publishers
ISBN 10: 1-58498-055-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-58498-055-1
Paper, 156 + iv pp., 6x9
$16.95

      Nouns and verbs
      A signifier here and there
      There as a disproportionate
      form of a marvelous
      feu d’artifice

      All speech a fireworks

“Serge Gavronsky sets out to test Zukofsky’s dictum that ‘a case can be made for the poet giving some of his life to the use of the words the and a: both of which are weighted with as much epos and historical destiny as a man can perhaps resolve’ — although in this case Gavronsky torques his dense, intense post-Objectivit braid around two conjunctions and the definite article. ANDORTHE  writes poems within a poem and against and through “A” and the Cantos, the Holocaust and the Upper West Side, academese and Brooklyn schtick, post-structuralism and rides on the 1/9. Epos and historical destiny — und so weiter — indeed!” —Michael Golston

“A ‘life story’ filtered parodically, mordantly through the political damage of the past few years. Data broken into and around; a novel in verse, a cubist novel by a contemporary of energy and wit.” —Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Serge Gavronsky, born in Paris, will probably die in Manhattan. He has published eleven books of poetry in France, over twenty artist’s books in France, one book of poetry in English: Sixty Six for Starters, four novels translated into Italian, and five books of translation of contemporary French poets. He has appeared in over thirty literary reviews in France and in the US. Forthcoming: Joyce Mansour, poetry, prose and theater (in translation) and his novel, The Sudden Death of...

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