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Mandel, Tom

Poetry

Chax Press

Poetry. ABSENCE SENSORIUM. "Tom Mandel and Daniel Davidson have done what two poets are not supposed to be able to do: they have jointly written a great long poem that is seamless, where you cannot tell where one leaves off and the other takes up. The whole is much more than the sum of the parts. Two enormous poetic talents and two richly imaginative perspectives on two lives combine to make a single magnificent poem, one that 'holds the night between two pale fingers'"-George Lakoff.

Absence Sensorium

Davidson, Daniel

Potes & Poets Press

Four Strange Books

Poetry. Tom Mandel grew up in Chicago and was educated in its jazz and blues clubs and at the University of Chicago where he studied on the Committee on Social Thought with Hannah Arendt and Saul Bellow. He has lived in New York, Paris, San Francisco and Washington DC, and now resides in a small town on the Atlantic coast. He has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois and San Francisco State University (where he was director of the Poetry Center). Mandel was closely associated with the rise of Language Poetry during its formative years in the 1970s and 1980s. This is is his first new book since the mid-1990s.

To the Cognoscenti

History & Criticism

Atelos

<p>"In LETTER TO POETRY, Tom Mandel finds both Rhyme and Reason under the hood of his Coupe de Ville. Rhyme is sometimes played for winks and Reason cloaked in gentle humor ('Maybe more hot air would make it / safe to cross the brink of this thin ice?'), but the undertones are stoic, Talmudic, and wise. Poetry offers Mandel a vast formal, historical, and even autobiographical toolkit. When he writes that a metaphor is 'like a noun no longer / used on that occasion,' his words are both wistful and transporting. Poetry was built to perform this task."-- Jean Day<br />
It seems entirely right that Tom Mandel's LETTER TO POETRY should have been occasioned, in part, by his purposive misremembering of a remark made by Harry Mathews. A dark European stripe runs through the work of both writers, and perhaps only they would contrive to chance upon a ripe clinamen in the Florida Keys. But was the letter answered, the reader inquires? Hell--was it ever! The beguilingly odd works visited upon our correspondent evince a rich, comedic music shot through with moments of stark poignance and reflective beauty. Tom Mandel is here to fold you into a rhyme; the note on his door reads, ìIíll be back in no time."<br />
-- Miles Champion\nBook Description\nTom Mandel Writes Letter to Poetry</p>

Letter to Poetry

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