 Collective Instant William Allegrezza 108 pages Cover design by Sheila E. Murphy ISBN: 978-0-9805096-0-1 Otoliths 2008 $12.50 + p&h URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/2368639
William Allegrezza’s Collective Instant brings together two chapbooks and a series of new works, including "Tracings from the Front," an extended piece exploring the language of conflict stripped and fragmented from its context. The poems in Collective Instant aim towards meanings, hope for meaning, while showing the inevitable absences between understanding and world, between the wild and ordered.
from Collective Instant
a poetics when i’ve placed a word it drifts scattering on the rocks facing me so that what i think i’ve written unbecomes itself as soon as it leaves me. as psyche
i stopped wit-burned steel-legged misshapen near the green folds of sheets that strangle unknowingly but the searing hot wax dripped through silence
thus love awoke venomous in agony anxious to flee
and i lost mystery gaining in its place fissures on the temple’s frieze age to add to fragility.
Readings by Bill Allegrezza of these & other poems from Collective Instant can be accessed through this link. |