ISBN 10: 0971086109
\n ISBN 13: 978-0971086104
\n 230 pages: $14.95
\n January, 2002<\/p>\n
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“This is a book filled with joy. The works are marked as well be reverence. The guiding genius is Thelonious Monk’s – the poems dance, they also kick. The days of Hank Lazer’s\u00a0Days\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>shake up the lyrics in which they are inscribed.” \u00a0<\/p>\n “This playfulness casts us under the spell of a ‘hip gnosis’ (to use one of Lazer’s outlandish puns) that open us, in the way only music and poetry can, to the intimations of love, friendship, and spiritual searching found everywhere, every day, inside these pages.” \u00a0<\/p>\n “These are beautiful – and peaceful – poems, signs of a mind and hand immediate with its materials.” \u00a0<\/p>\n “Days<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>locates itself in the charged rift between immanent and daily experience and our textual heritage. Hank Lazer seamlessly ventriloquizes such poets at Stein, Pound, Eigner, and Plath, sometimes against the grain, making the familiar words new.” \u00a0<\/p>\n Days<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is Hank Lazer’s first large collection of poetry to appear in six years. Written over the span of one-year-and-a-day, Lazer’s new book is a laboratory space for experimentation with the resources and possibilities of the short line and for new modes of lyricism. His previous books of poetry include\u00a0Simple Harmonic Motions<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(INK-A! Press),\u00a0As It Is<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(Diaeresis Chapbooks),\u00a03 of 10<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Chax Press),\u00a0Early Days of the Lang Dynasty<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Meow Press),\u00a0Doublespace: Poems 1971-1989<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Segue Books), and\u00a0INTER(IR)RUPTIONS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(Generator Press). With Charles Bernstein, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. His two volume collection of critical writings on contemporary poetry,\u00a0Opposing Poetries<\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0was published in 1996 by Northwestern University Press. Along with Jake Berry and Wayne Sides, Lazer is a founding member of The Alabama Poetry Ensemble. A Professor of English, Lazer is Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hank Lazer
\n –Lyn Hejinian, Poet, and Professor of English at U.C.-Berkeley<\/p>\n
\n –John Gery, Poet, and University Research Professor, University of New Orleans<\/p>\n
\n –Norman Fischer, Poet, and Zen Buddhist priest<\/p>\n
\n –Rae Armantrout, Poet, and Professor at U.C.-San Diego<\/p>\n
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