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LECTURE Thursday 5/27/2010
3:45 pm
"No Things But in Ideas"
Spalding University
Lousville, Kentucky
READING Tuesday 06/08/2010
6:30
pm
With Monica Youn and George Witte
Poetry from the Rooftops
Arsenal Building
64th St & 5th Ave
New York City
READING Friday 8/6/2010
8:00 pm
With Amy M. Clark
Dire Literary Series
Out of the Blue Gallery
106 Prospect St
Cambridge, MA
About In the Mode of Disappearance
I’ve been reading and rereading Jonathan Weinert's first book of poetry, In the Mode of Disappearance, one of the thornier and more rewarding first collections I've encountered in long awhile . . . From "Sauve": "If I could climb into death now/as into a foreign car, where/in all of France would you drive me?" Who wouldn't want to read on?
Weinert is a difficult poet influenced by difficult poets—Blake, Stevens—and he takes an angular, often oblique approach to his subjects. His imagery, diction, and syntax, though, are always acute.
—Steven Cramer, author of Goodbye to the Orchard, at Writers Read