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Review:
"This will be an exquisite book (not a corpse).
Everything about it will delight the eye and please the hand…
Writing sentences of interest comes about at considerable cost.
Writers tend to lie about this. 'This book just wrote itself.'
Only it didn't. Hank Lazer wrote these sentences (journal entries
and poems). He has written interesting sentences about all sorts
of things, including sentences about sentences and a white-on-white
nonsentence. He has written sentences going two (or more) ways
at the same time. They're polyphonic, they're musical. If you
don't buy this book and read these sentences you'll be sad. You
will feel something is missing from your life. And there will
be. If you buy this book, you could have an interesting enough
life. It could even become musical."
--John Taggart
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Hank Lazer's
other books of poetry include Days (Lavender Ink, 2002),
Elegies & Vacations (Salt Publishing, 2004), and The
New Spirit (Singing Horse Press, 2005). With Charles Bernstein,
he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University
of Alabama Press. His two volume collection of critical writings
on contemporary poetry, Opposing Poetries, was published in 1996
by Northwestern University Press. Along with Jake Berry and Wayne
Sides, Lazer is a founding member of The Alabama Poetry Ensemble.
Hank Lazer was born and raised in San Jose,
California. A Professor of English at the University of Alabama,
where he has taught since 1977, Lazer is currently Assistant Vice
President.
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