#Talismania serial serial

By sense I mean that altered state, a temporary paranoia that can last over days, when everything I read or overhear fits into my composition, my text providing a context flowing into and out of my life. I write long poems because, in my experience, it is only during the act of composition, and then only sometimes, that the horrifying facts of so much history and so little life make a disorderly sense. levy Would Disagree: Statement for the Lakewood Session, April 10, 2012,” Blevins writes: At its best, this collection, one that represents this poet’s lifework, draws powerful energies from Blevins’s predecessor and companionate figures in art, literature, and music, while at the same time offering a reading of late modernism and the art that emerged in its wake.

#Talismania serial serial

Both a distinctly elegiac response to predecessors and a significant contribution to avant-garde conceptions of serial form, Blevins’s compendious The Art of the Serial Poem delineates a landscape of “ghost poets” whose company Blevins both shares and laments. At the same time, Blevins’s project in serial poetics follows that path up through such later figures as Robert Duncan, Ken Irby, Gregory Corso, and Gerrit Lansing.

Blevins’s project is one securely grounded in the work of his modernist forebears: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Charles Olson (whose compass is never far from Blevins’s map of “Amerika”).

For nearly forty years, the poet Richard Blevins has been a fortuitous and immensely productive figure in contemporary American poetry.