{"product_id":"charismatic-spirals","title":"Charismatic Spirals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharismatic Spirals\u003c\/i\u003e is for an America circa 2024, where poetry – the art of developing new means of speaking – has never been of such artistic, technological and political consequences.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn archetypal outsider, Will Alexander released his first poetry collection aged forty-four while working at the Los Angeles Lakers' ticket office. Three decades on, he has ascended to the legendary status of the city's great living surrealist, existing, as Eliot Weinberger wrote, in a state of 'imaginal hyperdrive', with forty such collections to his name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOperating at the edge of language, Alexander deploys words in a way that feels prophetic – human psyches synthesise with technological artefacts; atoms and archetypes collide; bodies are vacated, voices are newly incarnated. His America is multinational and multivalent and symbolically unstable. That is to say, he belongs to an America circa 2024, where poetry – the art of developing new means of speaking – has never been of such artistic, technological, and political consequence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander draws from a vast array of influences, from luminaries like Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to holistic visions such as Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga, the Mayan numerical system, and Cheikh Anta Diop's perspectives on ancient Egypt. In a preview of \u003ci\u003eCharismatic Spirals\u003c\/i\u003e in the New York Times, Anne Boyer captured the essence of his work: 'visionary poetry [that] achieves its effect through sound, not image ... Cadence [that] can shatter us, set the world ablaze.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead it syllabically, surf it quickly – there is no single way to approach this work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Alexander (born 1948 in Los Angeles) is an artist, philosopher, poet, novelist, essayist and pianist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Isolarii\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 199 pages | 7 cm x 10.8 cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Will Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47640071307496,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/charistmaticspirals_1000px_540x_97bee5b5-ba68-41bb-a5f0-a2dad34d94f9.webp?v=1756675624","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/charismatic-spirals","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}