<p>Poetry. David Mutschlecner's second book from Ashahta Press, SIGN, both evokes the prophecy of an endgame and posits the possibility of enduring aspiration. Contextualized within the sacred, the sparse verse of SIGN illuminates the fall of man and the repercussive realities that cloak the contemporary apocalyptic psyche, both public and personal. Steeped not so much in religion as it is in reckoning, Mutschlecner assigns gravity and a well-tempered philosophy to every word with a language that constantly contends with truth. "The good and gladsome news in Mutschlecner's SIGN is that the ceremonies of innocence are not drowned. Rather they enjoy a continuous, lucent transformation in poems such as these. SIGN is a kinetic missal of new faith and new perfections" --Donald Revell. Mutschlecner's ESSE is also available at SPD.</p>

Sign (The New Series)

Literature & Fiction

Mutschlecner, David

Poetry

Ahsahta Press

Poetic Faith

Lune

Poetry. Through its sparse yet expansive lyricism, this book enacts "a complex gestural nest," where thought is created in the spaces between poets and philosophers (Stein, Dante, Heidegger) and visual artists (Agnes Martin, the Gee's Bend quilters). This intertextuality bares the poem to its historical tendons, where a taxidermied swallow may thrive as a bottled ship. The poet's work is questioned and affirmed as song that exists "at the center of incredible volume."

Enigma and Light (New Series, 47)

<p>Poetry. ICON is a vivid example of David Mutschlecner's theopoetics, offering devotion to the divine, to poets, and to the earth and materiality itself: "it is supernatural / that language lifts the tree," he writes, and "the gold ground holds / the halo whose gold / bleeds back into the ground." The icon is revealed as anyone's loved face--and that beloved face can help one to know "the stars / half patterned / by the quick breath of the brush." Here, in fact, an icon is being written, and the poem becomes an act of thanksgiving. Mutschlecner upholds his devotion to the trinity of poets always close at hand in his poems: Dickinson, Dante, and Duncan. One finds the grace of bewilderment at the heart of this work.</p>

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Sign (The New Series)

Poetic Faith

Enigma and Light (New Series, 47)

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