The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom

Author: Leslie Scalapino

Publisher: Post-Apollo Press (2010)

Leslie Scalapino’s The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom, while a work that stands on its own, forms a pair with Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows (Starcherone, 2010), which Michael McClure describes as “a jewel book that has come out of the spagyric hinterlands of purest imagination, where it has lain for an immeasurable time alongside Burroughs’s Cities of the Red Night, Hans Arp’s poetry, Monkey’s Journey to the West, and Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger…” Lydia Davis comments: “Leslie Scalapino’s writing reveals how far language—and therefore thought itself—can go beyond what we are accustomed to, and the forms in which she writes delightfully defy our expectations.”