Secret's Exhibition and Other Introventions by Vernon Frazer
Vernon Frazer's Secret's Exhibition and Other Introventions is a delightful book, showing & showcasing once again, from the first poem on — " to repeal a tense present / riding the grammar surge" — the poet's ability to align words with other, often disparate, words, & then shape the resultant phrases into assemblages of insight & beauty. —Mark Young
Vernon Frazer's Secret's Exhibition and Other Introventions is a delightful book, showing & showcasing once again, from the first poem on — " to repeal a tense present / riding the grammar surge" — the poet's ability to align words with other, often disparate, words, & then shape the resultant phrases into assemblages of insight & beauty. —Mark Young
Vernon Frazer's Secret's Exhibition and Other Introventions is a delightful book, showing & showcasing once again, from the first poem on — " to repeal a tense present / riding the grammar surge" — the poet's ability to align words with other, often disparate, words, & then shape the resultant phrases into assemblages of insight & beauty. —Mark Young
Vernon Frazer's Secret's Exhibition and Other Introventions is a delightful book, showing & showcasing once again, from the first poem on — " to repeal a tense present / riding the grammar surge" — the poet's ability to align words with other, often disparate, words, & then shape the resultant phrases into assemblages of insight & beauty.
—Mark Young
Vernon Frazer’s Secret’s Exhibition and other Introventions is a “panegyric hopscotch a neon retina” eyeing counterhistory through a portal of postlanguage with its dystopian nerve tissue. These highly crafted “introventions” are disfigurements written as a dance macabre: reprosuctive, reified, eschatologic, biohazardic “under oratorio pitchforks” with their “vivisectionists” the new hamartias. Secret’s Exihibition is the mysterium as postapocalyptic, doomeager prophecy executed with stylistic finesse in the triumph of death. In these “bonnet catacombs,” there are no survivors. Carcinogenic data is “retread vengeance,” bleak in its “burnt symphony.” Adieu “demon bystanders adieu.” Resolute, mature and masterful, Secret’s Exihibition is chiascuro of annihilation, a hellpit for devotees of the grand poesis.
—Daniel Y. Harris
In this collection Vernon Frazer moves beyond the burden of understanding and invites the mind to explore. No solid object, it refuses to sit. It must be chased but cannot be caught. Read it once, then again and see that it has shifted. Remarkable.
—Nathan Anderson
Vernon Frazer has written over thirty books of poetry, three novels and a short story collection. His poetry, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Aught, Big Bridge, First Intensity, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Miami SunPost, Muse Apprentice Guild, Sidereality, Xstream and many other literary magazines. He introduced IMPROVISATIONS at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in Manhattan. Working in multi-media, Frazer has performed his poetry with the late saxophonist Thomas Chapin, the Vernon Frazer Poetry Band and as a solo poet-bassist. His jazz poetry recordings and multimedia work are available on YouTube. Frazer resides in central Connecticut. He is widowed.
Book Information:
· Paperback: 116 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-404-8