Divine Blue Light For John Coltrane by Will Alexander Paperback Book 9780872868700

From Will Alexander finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afrofuturism where Camp233eacutesaire meets Sun Ra Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexanders status as one of the most unique and innovative voices in contemporary poetryOne of Publishers Weeklyamp8217s Top 10 Notable Poetry Books for Fall 2022quotSince the 1980s the Los Angelesbased Alexander has mixed politics with mesmeric oracular linesquotThe New York TimesAgainst the ruins of a contemporary globalist discourse which he denounces as a amp8220lingual theocracy of superimposed rationalityamp8221 Will Alexanderamp8217s poems constitute an alternative cartography that draws upon omnivorous readingamp8212in subjects from biology to astronomy to history to philosophyamp8212amalgamating their diverse vocabularies into an impossible instrument only he can play Divine Blue Light is anchored by three major works the opening amp8220Condoned to Disappearanceamp8221 a meditation on the heteronymic exploits of Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa the closing amp8220Imprecation as Mirageamp8221 a poem channeling an Indonesian man and the title poem...