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(Trembling Pillow Press)<br \/>\n1891053116<\/span><\/p>\n<p>120 pages: $19.95<br \/>\n2009<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Bill Lavender&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Transfixion,<\/em> published by Trembling Pillow in 2009, continues the investigation into the relationship of poetry and trance-like states.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Bill Lavender deploys here the weapon he&#8217;s hesitated to use until now: the &#8220;I,&#8221; 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<p>\u2014Andrei Codrescu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each word has two meanings, its regular meaning and the other one: let&#8217;s rejoin the hoopla till &#8220;the onrushing host loops thought as a green sprig.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Bernadette Mayer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is sharp swish writing in tongues forked twixt Horace and Lorca and everyman &amp; woman you have or have never met. I call it a gift that keeps giving &#8220;to see, to understand or thing immediately.&#8221; Keep smiling, keep reading, all your friends are here and then some, though the &#8220;ground of imago is fear \/ a paranoied metropolis&#8221;\u2014but we know a parnoid city is a city that knows the facts\u2014and why worry, there&#8217;s a hospital of grammar copulating beneath a full moon. 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