Don't Forget to Breathe
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-925904-67-6 (ISBN)
Description
Poetry. "Andrew Levy's DON'T FORGET TO BREATHE is truly only figuring out how to stay free."--Lissa Wolsak
"Somewhere in here the poet says 'you can call me Nothing / Which is something,' thereby compressing the crisis related in this book to its bluntest formulation. Who or what is the residue that causes these words to occur? What do these questions, jokes, propositions, slogans, fragments, rationalizations constitute? No answer is forthcoming: anatomies of 'absurdities / Spewing forth / From capital' disintegrate as they coalesce, disposing themselves along an eroding continuum, where each step taken is a step back to an abandoned future. Although from here it's hard to see forward, some day the sticks will dry out, giving us a chance to make a fire, in whose heat and light we'll remember DON'T FORGET TO BREATHE as a threshold."--William Fuller
"Somewhere in here the poet says 'you can call me Nothing / Which is something,' thereby compressing the crisis related in this book to its bluntest formulation. Who or what is the residue that causes these words to occur? What do these questions, jokes, propositions, slogans, fragments, rationalizations constitute? No answer is forthcoming: anatomies of 'absurdities / Spewing forth / From capital' disintegrate as they coalesce, disposing themselves along an eroding continuum, where each step taken is a step back to an abandoned future. Although from here it's hard to see forward, some day the sticks will dry out, giving us a chance to make a fire, in whose heat and light we'll remember DON'T FORGET TO BREATHE as a threshold."--William Fuller
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Language
English
Place of publication
Arizona
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
213 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-925904-67-6 (9780925904676)
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Andrew Levy is the author of Notes toward a Supreme Fiction 2029, Artifice in the Calm Damages (chapbook), Don't Forget to Breathe, Nothing Is in Here (novella), and ten other collections of poetry and prose. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous American and international magazines and anthologies, including PoeticsfortheMorethanHumanWorld - An Anthology of Poetry & Commentary; Light Abstracts the Smallest Things: The Aesthetics of Basil King; The Canary Islands Connection - 60 Contemporary American Poets; and Resist Much / Obey Little - Inaugural Poems to The Resistance. Levy's writing works on the intersections of class and the ecology of commerce, and experimental music and the digitalization of freedom. A drummer, he works in collaboration with musicians and poets on readings and performances. He teaches journalism at BMCCCUNY.