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Title

Divine blue light (for John Coltrane) / Will Alexander.

Author

Alexander, Will

Publication

San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2022]

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Details

Description

xiii, 93 pages; 16 cm.

Summary

"Divine Blue Light is anchored by three major works: the opening 'Condoned to Disappearance,' a meditation on the heteronymic exploits of Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), the closing 'Imprecation as Mirage,' a poem channeling an apparently real Indonesian man, Taroon Kampoor, whose name spontaneously appeared in the poet's mind, and the title poem, an anthemic ode to the deconstructive maximalism of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967). Other key pieces include 'Accessing Gertrude Bell,' a critique of its titular subject (1868-1926), one of the architects of British Middle East policy and designers of the modern state of Iraq, 'Deficits: Chaïm Soutine & Joan Miró,' in homage to two Jewish artists forced to flee the Nazi Invasion of France, and 'According to Stellar Scale,' a compact lyric brought to and read in orbital space by astronaut Sian Proctor on the 2021 Inspiration4 mission. A kinetic explosion of language that emanates from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra, Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander's status as one of the most unique and important voices in contemporary poetry, as well as highlighting his connection to his Pocket Poet predecessors and inspirations, Philip Lamantia and Bob Kaufman"--

Series Statement

Pocket poets series ; number 63

Uniform Title

Pocket poets series ; no. 63.

Subject

• Coltrane, John, 1926-1967 > Poetry
• Coltrane, John, 1926-1967
• 2000-2099
• Saxophonists > Poetry
• African American jazz musicians > Poetry
• African American composers > Poetry
• Jazz > Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry > African American authors
• American poetry
• African American jazz musicians
• African American composers
• Jazz
• Saxophonists
• United States

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Gargantuan Origination: Inscription for the Collages of Dean Smith -- A Blaze of Riddles -- Ravenous Spectral Pores -- Oneiric Liminal Memo -- In a Pitch Dark Sailing House -- Re-Extolling Barbarism -- Neo-Rulership -- A Series of Sub-Particulates -- Anterior Cartography -- Anterior Speculation -- Phantom Inter-Dimensional Activity -- Transitional Sub-Weavings -- The Raven as Incantatory Nuclei -- Peripheral Terminology -- Fragment: Blaze as Unknowable Drift -- Original Language -- Borderless Hypotactic -- Divine Blue Light: Sudden Ungraspable Nomadics -- Human Presence That Lingers as Distorted Molecule -- According to Stellar Scale -- Nervous Incomparable Dictation -- Accessing Gertrude Bell -- Sans Phantom Neurotic Yield -- Grammars from Other Suns -- Mantric Blizzard as Space -- Darkened Solar Implication -- Language: Replete with Transformative Monsters -- The Mind as Quantum Quintessence -- Ghostly Bonding by Kinetic -- Nervous Electrical Compounding -- Deficits: Chai'm Soutine & Joan Miro -- Under Corporate Worship -- Hierarchy as Oblivion -- The Death Support System -- Inner Palpability -- The Alchemical Androgyne -- Hierarchical Lightning -- Quaking Interior Haven -- Pluperfect Aural Fatigue -- On Philosophical Audition -- Living Detritus -- On Stellar Origination -- On Eroded Solar Masses.

Call Number

Sc B 23-82

ISBN

• 9780872868700
• 0872868702

LCCN

2022011489

OCLC

1311591292

Author

Alexander, Will, author.

Title

Divine blue light (for John Coltrane) / Will Alexander.

Publisher

San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Pocket poets series ; number 63

Pocket poets series ; no. 63.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

Sc B 23-82