More great reviews for Nouveau’s Midnight Sun. E. Baus says: “I appreciated the way the book cut cross-sections into various strains of surrealism, suggesting further threads to pursue (Lee Ballantine’s magnetic journal Ur-Vox as well as the ongoing work of Black Widow press come to mind). It’s heartening to see so much variation within the approaches. I found myself particularly drawn to the prose works. Highly recommended!”
And Jay Snodgrass gives a virtual primer on Surrealism today and the questions raised in the book. **This review is a must read!** “If as Borges says,” Jay notes, “that words are dead metaphors, like coins in which the markings have been rubbed off, then it is the poet’s work to re-render the value of that coin. The coin, as it were, of division between the familiar and the new in poetry is the word. The poems in Nouveau’s Midnight Sun restamp the distinction between the known and the unknown, defamiliarizing meaning with surprise and style. On one hand the job of all poets is to remind us what we already know, but for the surrealist poet, the job is to remind even poets that the revised meanings the words a poem can offer are larger, more dangerous, and scarier than we can imagine.”
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