Almost Thence Sum

By Jeffrey Herrick

Jeffrey Herrick's poetry, in an essentially celebratory mode, performs a disruption of language as we know it, a veritable violence that only the rarest poets authorize themselves to allow. It's an unprecedented genre created in the spirited interest of language self-reinvention. How we read poetry undergoes here the kind of transformation that awakens its inherent potential-- the possibility for embodying what Charles Olson called our further nature. And it's work with a concrete, visual dimension that occupies the space between many languages-- a work in diversity by a polyglot American poet who has lived for decades abroad from the Middle East to Japan. The author of several previous books, this is Herrick's first to appear in this country.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581772211
• ISBN13: 9781581772210
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 178 Pages