Poetry. Matthew Klane's daily meditations on being and the body politic evolve from Plato's "divided line" into a rotating T-square that boomerangs beyond Darwin, beats around Bush then heads back to Whitman. These experiments ponder geopolitics and the U.S. electorate. In a grand bow to Whitman, Klane's first section, Specimen Days, borrows edicts and shapes them into spatial sonnets. In re Republic, poems bifurcate into two columns. In a bipartisan act, readers begin reading vertically and horizontally as Klane indicts pitfalls of political process and delights in human resilience. Haiku arranged in quadrants form World Series, the third section. Here, sound and visual play lead readers diagonally across the page. Can this country redefine itself again? By the final section, Explore Tomorrow Today(TM), a rotating t-axis reorients how meaning is structured with each turn of the page. This is the premier collection in Stockport Flats' Meander Scar Series of experimental poetry. Stockport Flats is an imprint of Ander Mose Studios.

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Literature & Fiction

Klane, Matthew

Poetry

Stockport Flats

Poetry. An icon is not an iceberg. Unless...the calving glacier is Che—Matthew Klane's CHE. Sonic totem poles whittle away at the revolutionary's fervor. Murals as brash as graffiti travel continents, ushering us amid lepers and snipers. This book is a bedside jungle. "What makes a man?" asks Klane as he trips on being Che. Guevara's course turns history, torques typography. Be the vehicle. / Be the cogs in the wheel. / Be the tarmac, turning curved, / through the narrow pass of my nerves. / C, h, e. This collection is a grand addition to the collective collaboration that is Che. Fire and ice. Che, "Codex Zodiac Billboards." Che, "Codex Xolotl (Soul Conductor)." Che, "The People's Theater." I wanted to live / in the ether, / to storm / sense's sentineled / gates— / to meet destiny, / grandeur / and wretchedness, / and stand in the winner's / etcetera.

Hist

Arts & Photography

Belflower, James

History & Criticism

Calamari Press

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