Exploring the delicate interplay between life and death, this collection features eleven distinct poems that delve into themes of loss and family dynamics. With a unique emotional intimacy, Lazer employs experimental poetry to confront the complexities of mourning and the often fraught experience of family vacations. Each poem offers a different perspective, inviting readers to reflect on the connections that bind the living to the memories of those who have passed.
The second installment in the Brush Mind series showcases Hank Lazer's innovative approach to poetry through his handwritten shape-writing project. This collection is characterized by its casual and fresh style, blending humor with profound insights in a unique flash poetry format. Inspired by a brush pen gifted by Buddhist priest Norman Fischer and the calligraphy of Kazuaki Tanahashi, the book offers a quick yet enriching reading experience that can be completed in just seven minutes.
Exploring the intersection of secular Jewish identity and radical poetry, this collection of essays delves into the contributions of influential poets like Stein, Zukofsky, and Ginsberg. Editors Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller invite contributors to examine what defines radical poetry by secular Jews and its broader implications within modernist poetic practices. The essays highlight the legacy and impact of earlier poets, fostering a nuanced understanding of the Jewish dimension in contemporary poetry.
The book showcases Hank Lazer's innovative approach to poetry through his handwritten shape-writing project, blending humor and depth in a unique flash poetry format. Created with a special brush pen gifted by Buddhist priest Norman Fischer, it reflects a casual and fresh style, allowing readers to experience its entirety in just seven minutes. The work also pays homage to the calligraphy of Kazuaki Tanahashi, enhancing its artistic expression.
This selected―the first compilation of essays by Hank Lazer following his ground-breaking and much revered two-volume Opposing Poetries―offers twelve years of incisive writing at the intersection of two of the more contentiously debated topics in current letters. Drawing on poetic traditions as seemingly disparate as Language writing and Buddhist poetry, Lazer pursues a way of reading that is rich in the music and spirit of the word, attuning readers to the pleasures and range of possibilities for innovative poetry. In a very accessible writing style, and with flashes of brilliance, Lazer explores and identifies new approaches to the lyric and to the writing of spiritual experience in American poetry of the past one hundred years. In this book of essays, interviews, reflections, and more, Lazer focuses on two topics central to the poetry of our the changing nature of beauty in the lyric and the necessity of finding new ways of embodying spirituality. By bringing a wide range of perspectives to his readings―from the jazz of Monk and Coltrane to the philosophy of Heidegger and Derrida―Lazer's essays inspire readers to enter into a renewed and renewing relationship with poetry.
