Cutting Time with a Knife

By Michael Leong

Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Like a manual pilfered from an alternate history where science and art never diverged, Michael Leong's new book transforms the periodic table of elements into a kind of concrete poetry. Leong's glowing hieroglyphs show that the poetic Word emerges as irony from iron from the whirled atoms of the World itself. Indeed, Leong redefines the space-time of the page as a furnace of pure imagination, where the cadaver of modernist poetics is smelted with black humor, 'form ing] crystals and other alloys at the boundarues of meaning. Here, we discover that 'Poetry is an ongoing reaction, a turning loose of the future.' For time doesn't exist without the possibility of revolution and Leong has, in CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE, created a true 'chamber of possibilities.'" Andrew Joron"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0986005002
• ISBN13: 9780986005008
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Black Square Editions
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.2"