Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley

Author: Joshua Ware

Publisher: Furniture Press Books (2011)

The fluctuating horizon of each page where poems dissolve into 'Explanatory Notes' suggests the contemporary poet's struggle with lines and lineages entangling the lyric in a tradition shaped primarily by its hostility to tradition. Ware illustrates the writer's task, alternately fruitful and frustrating, to accomplish the poem as discrete object while experiencing self as fluid and associational, with a promiscuous appetite for language stimulated and satisfied as much by Frankfurt School philosophy and schoolyard myth as by Aaron Sorkin's television scripts and Lacan's Disney. Ware's book questions the possibility of transgression in a culture made by uncertain boundaries.