Andrew SchellingFrom the
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Humans, mammals, birds, lizards “And the disjunction is simply the way / we search for new images,” writes Andrew Schelling in one of these 108 stanzas. The elements joined & disjoined on the surface are taken from natural history, linguistics, and explorations in North American poetry. Having studied for thirty years the languages & poetry of old Asia, Schelling sets out to read the landscapes, the flora & fauna, of the Southern Rocky Mountains with comparable attention to grammar & glottal stops. At the core of these poems is an encounter with Arapaho, an Algonkian language—& a whiff of the postmodern archaic.
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