Rhrurbarb

Author: Robert Kocik

Publisher: Field Books / Periplum Editions (2007)

Can remission be written? Can words be so potent and so immediately so? This new title by Robert Kocik offers the Sore, Oversensitive Sciences a sustained and demonstrative exploration of possible intersections between prosody and pathology. Two forty-six poem series, Remissions and Cinnabar Verses, along with a Preface and a generous Glossary, offer a good cross-section of Kocik's range, from prosody to medicine, neuroscience and biogenetics, to Chinese alchemy and back. The book is by turns metaphysically serious, tender, incisive, comically hilarious, and always demanding of its audience, who will barely recognize their own habits of thought, turned inside out.