BlazeVOX [books] publishes innovative fiction and poetry.
"The collection is at once comical and poignant, alienating and resonating, apocalyptic and ordinary—paradoxes wherein lie its beauty." — Javeria Hasnain
In Reading Whispers, J. Chester Johnson offers an evocative innovation to the haiku. The Japanese form is one that offers a great spatial experience by presenting images that go beyond a narrative frame. …. A heartfelt collection! —Kimiko Hahn
Bravo! A masterful celebration of the essence of a beloved classic show! —Kristen Ness
“With Elise’s Cowen’s struggling life cut short by her own hand we miss a poet’s further reach to heaven. But here we have astonishing devotion and skill in the careful writing she leaves behind … —Anne Waldman
Behold a tectonic poetics as language bursts the boundaries of cinema, poetry, and critique! —Maureen Owen
In The Ceremony of Opening the Mouth, Douglas Smith achieves an alchemical transformation—a Rumpelstiltskin feat of spinning personal pain and loss into literary art. —Terry Wright
Bill Freind’s The Feast of St. Mary MacKillop is a dazzling, irreverent, and moving collection where the sacred and the absurd collide in equal measure. —Geoffrey Gatza
To all who knew Keith Waldrop, this book will give him back to you, and to those who didn’t, it will give him to you for the first time—fully and faithfully. With her brilliant flair for anecdote and radiant detail, Moxley captures a living sense of one of America’s greatest 20th/21st century poets. —Cole Swensen
In Recapitulation in the Wrong Key, Mark Tardi orchestrates a genre-defying work of poetry, elegy, and experimental forms. —Sarah Mangold
Moscovich makes poetry out of a group of verbal CAPTCHAS from 2007-2009. Spread across the 9 to 5 of a typical workday we find CAPTCHAS lineated like typical poems … —Rae Armantrout
Like all the great ones, The Danbury Chronicles will haunt you and linger and resonate long after you turn the last page. —Rob Roberge
With wit, precision, and philosophical grace, Siedlecki explores how we inherit our voices, how language both reveals and fails us, and how the past, personal and collective, clings to the corners of our perception.
This is a book to savor slowly, one page at a time, as an invitation to notice. To pause. To find the extraordinary in the everyday.
“Finnell's images and sounds are both familiar and strange, kindred and uncanny. They are dearly, direly welcome, and unforgettable.” —Donald Revell
Daniel Y. Harris’ ThePosthuman Series is uncanny and disturbing. It’s impossible for the reader to escape its mix of Silicon Valley and Lurianic interspace. —Harold Bloom
Siphoning from a trajectory of experimental literature, literary and critical theory and the history of an avant-garde poíēsis from pataphysics to algorithmics and beyond —Daniel Y. Harris
Sala’s verse has the gift of making us laugh at ourselves, grifts and griefs and all that is great in the between. —Charles Bernstein
“Hix is perhaps our foremost philosopher-poet.”
— Jonathan Weinert, Cloudbank
Through spare, luminous fragments, Brenza renders the raw circuitry of perception and feeling, where grief, memory, and ecological dread flicker through language that is at once minimalist and lush.
The Rapture portrays the ghosts that lurk within their existential foreclosure as chatter, being penultimate portion of the habitual world. —Will Alexander
Consistently, but always surprisingly, manages to insert a wry sensibility into the syncopations and velocities of the poetry. The surprises are what get me, of course. They occasion shifts of position. Perhaps they reflect them, too--some kind of nervous passion, riding the conflict between being obliged to negotiate social reality and being obliged not to? —Lyn Hejinian
BlazeVOX an.online.journal.of.voice
Presenting fine works of poetry, fiction, text art, visual poetry and arresting works of creative non-fiction written by authors from around world
Thanksgiving Menu Poem
a concept poem structured around the thanksgiving meal
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a concept poem structured around the thanksgiving meal 〰️
Welcome to the Thanksgiving Menu-Poem. This project is a conceptual meal served as poetry for the thousands of friends I would love to have at our home on Thanksgiving Day.
This series began in 2002 with a Menu-Poem to honor Charles Bernstein, and since then this series engages Thanksgiving as the basis to celebrate poetry, poets, and the poetry community. Being a trained professional chef, I have blended my love of food and poetry into a book-length work as a feast of words and art to bring everyone a tiny bit closer together.
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With luminous precision and conceptual rigour, S.C. Hickman (of the iconic Social Ecologies blog) traces the first eight volumes of Daniel Y. Harris’ hypercomplex epic poem The Posthuman Series as both archive and organism —Andrew C. Wenaus