William Allegrezza currently resides in Michigan. His poems, articles and reviews have been published in the U.S., Holland, the Czech Republic and Australia, as well as in several online journals. His chapbooks, e-books and books include Lingo, The Vicious Bunny Translations, Covering Over, Temporal Nomads, Ladders in July, Ishmael Among the Bushes, and In The Weaver's Valley. He is the editor of Moria Poetry, a journal dedicated to experimental poetry and poetics, and the editor-in-chief of Cracked Slab Books, which released the The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century. His latest books are Fragile Replacements (Meritage Press, 2007), and the chapbook Filament Sense (Ypolita Press, 2008) 6.
as waters over an edge
boulders placed and waiting for destruction
"is this it?"
his was the last name given
as arches as canopies as caryatids
the words only words in space
from here to here to here
we are familiar with rain and gendered nations.
15.
a shifting of water
[. . . had intended. . . ]
[curves. . . ]
in tracing
what is lost,
we follow our voices
past odd curves
to the banks
"those boys looked through the
underbrush for most of the afternoon"
i did not try to follow you
where I could not go.
A Brief Poetics of Filament Sense
1. The poet begins with language flowing free and searches for traces of meaning that click. that signal some sparkle of the beyond language.
2. These poems, at once broken and whole, are explorations into language, into the language of the city, into the language of a mind in English.
2. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--so Emerson says. I refer you to his works.
4. A poet shuffles through the voice of the mundane and through those voices crammed on poetry's bookshelves. Eliot felt/heard the voices, as do I. Not anxiety, rather company.
5. At times these poems take their language directly from technical texts; at other times they border on the lyrical, but the lyric in our period is mostly a sham that I'm attempting to reclaim.
6. If you are looking for a definitive author's statement, you are likely to be disappointed.
as arches as canopies as caryatids
the words only words in space
from here to here to here
we are familiar with rain and gendered nations.
15.
a shifting of water
[. . . had intended. . . ]
[curves. . . ]
in tracing
what is lost,
we follow our voices
past odd curves
to the banks
"those boys looked through the
underbrush for most of the afternoon"
i did not try to follow you
where I could not go.
A Brief Poetics of Filament Sense
1. The poet begins with language flowing free and searches for traces of meaning that click. that signal some sparkle of the beyond language.
2. These poems, at once broken and whole, are explorations into language, into the language of the city, into the language of a mind in English.
2. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--so Emerson says. I refer you to his works.
4. A poet shuffles through the voice of the mundane and through those voices crammed on poetry's bookshelves. Eliot felt/heard the voices, as do I. Not anxiety, rather company.
5. At times these poems take their language directly from technical texts; at other times they border on the lyrical, but the lyric in our period is mostly a sham that I'm attempting to reclaim.
6. If you are looking for a definitive author's statement, you are likely to be disappointed.
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