{"id":2057,"date":"2009-09-27T08:37:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T12:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2009-09-27T08:37:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T12:37:30","slug":"bill-lavenders-transfixion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/bill-lavenders-transfixion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Lavender's Transfixion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very pleased to have Transfixion<\/em><\/strong>, Bill Lavender\u2019s new book just out from Garrett County & Trembling Pillow Presses, in hand. As I say in the blurb I wrote for Transfixion<\/em>: \u201cThis is sharp swish writing in tongues forked twixt Horace and Lorca and everyman & woman you have or have never met. I call it a gift that keeps giving \u2018to see, to understand or think immediately.\u2019 Keep smiling, keep reading, all your friends are here and then some, though the \u201cground of imago is fear \/ a paranoid metropolis\u201d \u2014 but we know a paranoid city is a city knows the facts \u2014 and why worry, there\u2019s a hospital of grammar copulating beneath a full moon. For Bill Lavender is the doctor of present experience, be that in oddly populist states, rich republics or cities emerging from the water, like Atlantis spelled backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bill Lavender deploys here the weapon he\u2019s hesitated to use until now: the \u201cI,\u201d in its most bitter-sweet reflexive lethal mode. The barrel is pointed at a mercilessly dissected self that it fires at with compassion and a wealth of sportive detail. This book is an amazingly beautiful collection of (self) hunting notes.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Andrei Codrescu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Each word has two meanings, it\u2019s regular meaning and the other one: let\u2019s rejoin the hoopla till \u201cthe onrushing host loops thought as a green sprig\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Bernadette Mayer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Pierre Joris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very pleased to have Transfixion, Bill Lavender\u2019s new book just out from Garrett County & Trembling Pillow Presses, in hand. As I say in the blurb I wrote for Transfixion: \u201cThis is sharp swish...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,91],"tags":[193,727],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-poetry","tag-bill-lavender","tag-transfixion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}