Poetry. "'Call it immersion': take Michael Ruby's sibilant heterographic tour of the underworld's underwords and rediscover in these homophonic burrows that sonic intersection is ear + imagination. At once 'tenebrous children' and a 'jangling ring of skeleton keys,' these poems ghost- grasp their father (or was it patrimony's patter?), then intrafiliate to interlock in lines that haunt: we watch these 'seals kiss' as 'bus urn,' to 'out vain era// air a care//none inferior' and 'still soak to a purpose somewhere.' Ruby, take ...
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Poetry. "'Call it immersion': take Michael Ruby's sibilant heterographic tour of the underworld's underwords and rediscover in these homophonic burrows that sonic intersection is ear + imagination. At once 'tenebrous children' and a 'jangling ring of skeleton keys,' these poems ghost- grasp their father (or was it patrimony's patter?), then intrafiliate to interlock in lines that haunt: we watch these 'seals kiss' as 'bus urn,' to 'out vain era// air a care//none inferior' and 'still soak to a purpose somewhere.' Ruby, take a golden bow--this work's '[to elicit] a response from littoral folk' and figural ones, too."--Judith Goldman "'Ghostly cooing fills the moist dark places,' and the reader and dreamer returns to the Underworld, together, already there, 'Circling in an eddy for the time being.'"--Christophe Casamassima After studying Louis Zukofsky's Rudens in graduate school, I always wanted to write a homophonic translation. A decade later, I settled on the long opening of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid , the famous Underworld book, and wrote 'Sic Fatur Lacrimans.' Soon afterward, sensing the translation itself needed translation, I decided to derive other poems from the words and phrases of 'Sic Fatur Lacrimans'--poems that would be connected to the long poem and to each other, in a sort of literary Rayonism. I saw the book as the verbal equivalent of St. Sebastian pierced by arrows, with 'Sic Fatur Lacrimans' as St. Sebastian and the shorter poems as the arrows, crisscrossing each other. --Michael Ruby
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