034 Gilbert Adair – ‘Sable Smoke’
Veer Publication 034 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-23-0]
"There’s only one method: throw yourself into the darkness which is (at least) the darkness of ink and death. Lose yourself in strange demotics, restart-loops, flarf-like overspills, sleuthy overhearings, scatological flingings of language, self-reflexive poetics questions: these proverbs of death. If ‘sable smoke’ is an embarrassed reference to death then these are death grunts after the events, the transcriptions of voices, vampires, the graphology of emphasis for the ear—nothing random. A little openness to punning, infantile abandonment, language-ploy, goes a long way. You’ll hear these death rattles laughing."
(Robert Sheppard)
US Letter size. 172 pages. November 2010. £10.00
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