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Shira Dentz<\/a><\/h2>\n

the sun a blazing zero<\/h3>\n

ISBN:\u00a0 978-1-944884-47-5\u00a0(pbk.)
\n(March, 2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This unique and experimental project treats the intersections of image and word, examining\u00a0traditions of Ezra Pound\u2019s poetry as a zone of maximum energy and Andr\u00e9 Breton\u2019s poetics of the “explosante-fixe<\/em>” through a feminist lens. The poet seeks to sustain a dynamic between deliberate and chance writing, providing a formal parallel to the tension between themes of elegy\u2014through pauses, reverses, and halts\u2014and dynamism\u2014through a syntactic forward motion and flux. She exploits the aural, visual, and semantic dimensions of language in order to track the vibrations of a receding world that has not yet entirely vanished. Those worlds, receding from view but still barely visible, include climate change, animal preservation, effects of war, and a woman\u2019s vantage point on the cusp of aging.<\/p>\n

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There is something noncommittal or unstable about a collection that doesn\u2019t dwell too long in one type of form or narrative; indeed, its very \u201cnature\u201d is unsustained. Mina Loy wrote that poets \u201cpresent the map of their individuality without the secondary reconstruction of the pictorial coherence of our customary vision.\u201d Every time we recognize someone\u2019s work \u201cit is by the singularity of this map of their aesthetic system.\u201d the sun a blazing zero <\/em>is more a map of experiences than a smooth geometric form. Many of the individual poems, products of free writing, disrupted through erasures and re-sequencing, discover juxtapositions of referential meanings, letter sounds and shapes, and syntactical ruptures that can serve as material in an assemblage of meaning\u2014or affect. New words are created from the phonemes and vocables of surrounding language. The source material is recycled and \u201cdegraded,\u201d \u201can abstraction of language\u201d that moves towards an invented way to intensify a lyric field, to find something fresh, to articulate\u2014usually female\u2014experiences that lack a vocabulary, and\/or to experience language anew, and\/or to ride with\u2014not rebut\u2014the noise of information-overload in our contemporary psyches. Typography, too, and the visual space of the page is treated as malleable and expressive elements in writing.<\/p>\n

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the sun a blazing zero<\/em>is a collage of movement between the inner and outer, through which varied \u201cshutter speeds,\u201d or a stream of mental events, weave the personal with the sociopolitical. The portrait of the \u201cI\u201d constructed therein is aligned with Denise Levertov\u2019s notion of the poetic \u201cI\u201d as an earthworm moving through the world by filling and emptying through it. Attention to the physical form of letters serves as a kind of mediation that has a correspondence in narrative to metafiction. By not ignoring the \u201cbody\u201d of writing, the poems align with the poetics of Kathleen Fraser, Susan Howe, and Jenny Boully, among others, in which the silence of the page evokes the present yet absent female, and play as an instinctive response to conventions that led Laura Mulvey to assert that feminists\u2019 ultimate challenge is \u201chow to fight the unconscious structured like a language while still caught within the language of the patriarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Praise for Shira Dentz and the sun a blazing zero<\/h3>\n

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\u201cEncompassing our past and present in a flirtatious and exuberant display of lyric immediacy, Dentz stretches our textural engagement with memory and history \u2013 feminism, the Holocaust, gardens and animals with texts that read like improvisatory jazz\u00a0fugues. A pleasure to read and to look at.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Erica Baum<\/p>\n

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\u201cWelcoming the \/ crackling from one snap of think,\u201d Shira Dentz\u2019s latest collection, the sun a blazing zero<\/em>, leaps synaptically (and syntactically) from sensation to affect, from self to cosmos, and from heartbreak to wonder. Under a literary constellation composed of William Blake, Henry David Thoreau, Vito Acconci, and Susan Howe, this poet invites us to join her in \u201cbuilding a house open to the elements.\u201d The views from this exposed literary shelter are simply breathtaking. You can watch \u201cmountains \/ like flame, \/ only slower.\u201d Those unaccustomed to the cold at such altitudes are invited to wrap themselves in \u201cmourning, the heaviest fabric.\u201d Dentz shows us how to dwell in worlds far from home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Srikanth Chicu Reddy<\/p>\n

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If Emily Dickinson wants to \u201cTell all the truth but tell it slant,\u201d Shira Dentz wants \u201cthe lines to open. to be jagged, smeared, and tilted.\u201d\u00a0 That wish, expressed late in Dentz\u2019s new book, does not substitute for<\/em>the deed, but describes<\/em>the deed performed by the poetry that precedes it.\u00a0the sun a blazing zero<\/em>is full of jagged, smeared, and tilted lines, of poems \u201copen to the elements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014H. L. Hix<\/p>\n

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In these poems, we find “a glint like an eye’s: yolk yellow, crayon thick,” a sonic “hue do” where senses intertwine and words lead one into the next breathlessly opening and opening again. Dentz’s poems leave spaces agape, even in their sonic onrush, to allow for “a question mark, which is by its space to be slept wafting.” Her porous poetics blankets the small and uncertain self in rich language that makes us more comfortable with loss, death, cold, and the unknown\u2014those “blazing zeroes” where uncertainty becomes palpable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2014Amaranth Borsuk<\/p>\n

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These fine-grained, loose-limbed poems stay lightly with the contact zone where senses meet day. The zone precipitates scenes and memories, hi-def images, half-words. Notation coalesces into sensate palmate structures, affective fractals, till moments wheel like murmurations.\u00a0Blazing Zero is gestural, avid, and moving, multi-ways.<\/p>\n

\u2014Catherine Wagner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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